A Brief History of Dogs - How We Domesticated Dogs

Dogs are human's best friend. They're loyal, hard-working, and eager to please. But how did they get that way? Short answer: Humans. Come along on the journey from prehistoric wolf to portable purse-dogs, as we look at our finest achievement -- the invention of dogs!

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"Animal evolution during domestication: the domesticated fox as a model"
"Archaeological dogs from the Early Holocene Zhokhov site in the Eastern Siberian Arctic"
A New Origin Story for Dogs
"Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication"
"Co-evolution of humans and canids: An alternative view of dog domestication: Homo homini lupus?" (PDF)
Turnspit Dogs: The Rise And Fall Of The Vernepator Cur

[lilyevans]

"Dogs were loyal, hardworking and eager to please, but despite that, we wanted more"
This kinda sums up the human kind in one sentence

[uberballer]

It’s mind blowing how the early versions could just pass on their “tameness” and how doing that over and over could just physically and genetically change them over time like what

[narararamammily]

This video is highly underrated. The animation is so good.

[bmark]

Interesting. A breed/classification of dogs found in the Philippines called ASPIN ("Asong Pinoy" literally "Philippine Dog" in English) is a combination of many varieties and breeds of dog. This resulted in a breed that has a very strong immune system with no health issues at all. It feels like it's being bred back to its ancestors somehow.

[rk.r]

Ngl, I thought it was Ted-ed for a moment. Can't believe this only has 1k views. Great job!

[arrowsaurus]

How do you have practically no subscribers, yet your content is GLORIOUS

[tincan]

Them: “it’s not a loaf”
Me: “but...it is”

[satanshameer]

Dogs didn't evolve from the common ancestor of wolves and dogs. But they evolved from the grey wolf itself. Coming to that, the grey wolf itself consists of multiple subspecies. Dogs evolved from one of the grey wolf subspecies populations that later became extinct.

[alklazaris]

I got my first dog about a year ago. Always been a cat person. Now I can't picture life without one. I have a Pembroke Corgi and just can't believe how smart and intuitive he is. I once took him free walking at night. Pretty much just told him to go anywhere and I'll follow him. He found a couple stray cats to chase, but eventually walked right to the place where we'd run around for exercise. Then hopped around and barked at me. I get it now. I really get it.

[btokes]

IMO one of the craziest shit humans ever did was domesticate dogs and I believe that only because the humans of that time who figured out selective breeding did not necessarily even understand how genes and trait probabilities worked at the time.

Yes as a species we have done WAY crazier shit since then, but a lot of times these inventors and inventors had data and research to guide them. Crazy to me that so long ago people figured out how to manipulate an entire species fate lol

[lillykinsman]

BRO! Great job! WHY I THIS SO UNDERRATED?!? This is the most child-friendly evolution video I have seen! Again, Great job!

[JohnSmith-ywnk]

It is actually really interesting how much we put up with for dogs. A species evolved to excel at hijacking our nurturing instincts. People are literally giving their dogs manicures and professional shampoos, their diets better than some humans...with literally no work required.

[SoySoulartiste]

We can all agree that the wolfs were drawn adorably

[talimbeingaverythriftyghor]

*_"how doge became good bois"_*

[HYDROCARBON_XD]

The animation is so good it’s frame by frame, frame by frame looks much more cool

[bhavyabhatt]

Love it! Man's best friend truly is best. Fantastic video :)

[humzahj.]

Great content, very professional; would love to see a cat one next

[thatsplatcat]

At first when I saw the subscriber count i thought it said 3 million, that made sense because the video was so high quality, but then I saw that it was 3 thousand, and I just went...WHATTTT????

[xrkpqzg]

It's so interesting to see how the dogs became our best friends. And I love the art style and animation. Keep doing a great job!

[staceylee]

im glad i found this gem through falling down the youtube rabbit hole. great content and i really love the animation!