Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs

By P. Savolainen, Ya-ping Zhang, Jing Luo, J. Lundeberg, T. Leitner. Science, 2002

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Big city life: carnivores in urban environments (2012, background): “, 1997) with a ‘formal’ domestication of dogs Canis familiaris around 12 000–14 000 years ago (Savolainen et al., 2002).”
The Origins of Fruits, Fruit Growing, and Fruit Breeding (2010, background): “Although the diffusion of agricultural information has been ignored in favor of independent development, recent evidence on the domestication of the dog suggests that diffusion of agricultural information may indeed be involved (Leonard et al. 2002; Savolainen et al. 2002).”
Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies (2005, background): “The dog has a long history of adaptation to the human environment (Vilá et al. 1997; Savolainen et al. 2002), and it is widely assumed that the selection process during domestication may have altered not only their morphological traits but also their behaviour and behaviour control systems…”
Breed-typical behaviour in dogs—Historical remnants or recent constructs? (2006, neutral): “The earliest archaeological finding of the domestic dog is dated to 14,000 year BP (Nobis, 1979, in Clutton-Brock, 1999), but results based on mitochondrial DNA suggest that the domestication of the dog may have begun 40,000 years from now (Savolainen et al., 2002).”
Comparative social cognition: what can dogs teach us? (2004, background): “Genetic evidence places the emergence of dogs between 35000 and 100 000 years ago (Vilá et al. 1997; Savolainen et al. 2002), although there is still uncertainty about the timing (for an account of evolutionary processes that could have shaped behaviour of the dog, see Coppinger & Coppinger 2001).”
Domesticating Animals in Africa: Implications of Genetic and Archaeological Findings (2011, background): “Geneticists have debated how to interpret the great genetic diversity of dogs throughout the world, in terms of their history as a distinct lineage and their region of domestication (e.g. Savolainen et al. 2002; Vilà et al. 1997; Wayne et al. 2006; Wayne and Ostrander 2007).”
Warring brothers: The complex interactions between wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris) in a conservation context (2014, positive): “Another important study based on mtDNA suggested a more recent domestication event around 15,000 years BP with a single origin in eastern Asia (Savolainen et al., 2002).”
Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication (2010, neutral): “1; (2) geographical dog breed groups (Supplementary Table 1); and (3) wolves and dogs as separate groups.”
Genetics and conservation of wolves Canis lupus in Europe (2011, background): “Molecular data suggest multiple domestication events in Asia (Vilà et al. 1999a, Savolainen et al. 2002, Pang et al. 2009, vonHoldt et al. 2010).”
Genetics and animal domestication: new windows on an elusive process (2006, background): “This is especially true of wolves where one haplotype was shown to exist in Turkey, Sweden and Portugal and another in Saudi Arabia, Mongolia and China (Savolainen et al., 2002).”
Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog (2005, methodology): “ahuman(S)–max(adog(S), amouse(S)) and (4) converting this rank-sum difference to a z-score by comparing it to the mean and standard deviation observed in”
Genetic analyses from ancient DNA. (2004, background): “Genetic evidence for an East Asian origin of domestic dogs.”
The dog as a model for understanding human social behavior (2009, background): “The dog’s origin dates back earlier than that of any other domestic species (Savolainen et al., 2002) and dogs have survived in various niches provided by humans.”
Acoustic parameters of dog barks carry emotional information for humans (2006, positive): “It is important to note that the vocalisation system of the wolf (which is usually regarded as being the most closely related species to the dog, Savolainen et al., 2002) is composed of two very distinct sound systems where barking is categorized among other vocalisations that signal aggression,…”