A new study helps narrow down where dogs likely came from—eastern Eurasia—while also suggesting our canine pals may have been domesticated more than once.
. “There’s been a lot of pins put in the map,” says Pontus Skoglund, a geneticist at the Francis Crick Institute and senior author of the new study.
One of the first things that jumped out was how interconnected these far-flung wolf populations remained over time, Skoglund says. Over tens of thousands of years, wolves living as far apart as Alaska and Europe continued to share recent ancestry, suggesting the animals were mobile and mated at least occasionally.
These are “exciting results,” says evolutionary biologist Yohey Terai at Japan’s Graduate University for Advanced Studies, whose work previously identified an extinct Japanese wolf as the. Even though “the authors did not sample a wolf population most closely related to dogs,” he says, “these samples help narrow down the place of origin.”
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