A simple reason for a big difference: wolves do not look back at humans, but dogs do.

By Á. Miklósi, Enikö Kubinyi, J. Topál, Márta Gácsi, Zsofia Viranyi, V. Csányi. Current Biology, 2003

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Genetics, Pharmacy

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Gaze Cueing of Attention (2007, background): “Even more striking, this initial facilitation triggered by peripheral exogenous cues is overcome by inhibitory effects at longer cue–target intervals.”
Effects of 2 training methods on stress-related behaviors of the dog (Canis familiaris) and on the dog–owner relationship (2014, background): “Second, in situations when a reward was inaccessible and when its acquisition required the intervention of a human, pet dogs looked back toward their owners (Gaunet, 2010; Gaunet and Deputte, 2011), whereas wolves almost never did (Miklósi et al., 2003) (this behavior corresponds to 1 of the 2 refer”
Effects of breed, sex, and neuter status on trainability in dogs (2005, background): “Recent experimental studies have confirmed that domestic dogs exhibit heightened sensitivity and responsiveness to human social cues and communication signals, and that they perform consistently better than either hand-reared wolves or chimpanzees on human-guided tasks (Agnetta, Hare and Tomasello 2”
The domestication hypothesis for dogs' skills with human communication: a response to Udell et al. (2008) and Wynne et al. (2008) (2010, background): “bility that dogs evolved their unusual ability to use human communicative cues not only during, but as a direct result of, domestication (Miklosi et al. 2003; Hare & Tomasello 2005).”
Comparative social cognition: what can dogs teach us? (2004, background): “We have seen that, compared with wolves, dogs show a clear preference for following a human gaze (Miklósi et al. 2003), so they could be ‘preadapted’ to learn about the significance of gazing in humans.”
Human-directed gazing behaviour in puppies and adult dogs, Canis lupus familiaris (2011, methodology): “It has been suggested that as a direct consequence of domestication by humans, dogs may have (inadvertently) been selected for the ability to follow human communicative gestures (Hare et al. 2002; Miklósi et al. 2003; Hare & Tomasello 2005).”
Domestic goats, Capra hircus, follow gaze direction and use social cues in an object choice task (2005, background): “The wild ancestors of dogs, wolves, do not do well in the object choice task (Hare et al. 2002; Miklosi et al. 2003).”
Wolves outperform dogs in following human social cues (2008, methodology): “The testing containers used for the object choice test were always located on the same side of the fence as the experimenter.”
A friend or an enemy? Dogs' reaction to an unfamiliar person showing behavioural cues of threat and friendliness at different times (2005, background): “In some cases, domestication may have led to the emergence of novel behavioural traits (e.g. situation-specific eye contact with humans, Miklósi et al., 2003).”
Domestic dogs are sensitive to a human's perspective (2009, background): “, 2004; Schwab & Huber, 2006) as well as in cooperative/communicative contexts (Hare et al., 2002; Miklosi et al., 2003).”
The world from a dog's point of view (2013, unknown): “They have also learned to produce communication signals toward humans in order to carry out their own behavioral goals (Miklósi et al., 2003).”