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There was a lot of variety among wolves in the Late Pleistocene. [1] The dingo is also a dog, but many dingos have become wild animals again and live independently of humans in the range where they occur (parts of Australia). Lord, Kathryn; Feinstein, Mark; Smith, Bradley; Coppinger, Raymond (2013). "Variation in reproductive traits of members of the genus Canis with special attention to the domestic dog ( Canis familiaris)". Behavioural Processes. 92: 131–142. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.10.009. PMID 23124015. S2CID 9748685. Andics, Attila; Gácsi, Márta; Faragó, Tamás; Kis, Anna; Miklósi, Ádám (2014). "Voice-Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI". Current Biology. 24 (5): 574–578. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.058. PMID 24560578.Batson, K.; McCabe, B.; Baun, M.M.; Wilson, C. (1998). "The effect of a therapy dog on socialization and psychological indicators of stress in persons diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease". In Turner, Dennis C.; Wilson, Cindy C. (eds.). Companion animals in human health. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. pp.203–215. ISBN 978-0-7619-1061-9. John Feffer (2 June 2002). "The Politics of Dog – When globalization and culinary practice clash". The American Prospect. Archived from the original on 27 April 2006 . Retrieved 11 May 2007. Wood, Lisa; Martin, Karen; Christian, Hayley; Nathan, Andrea; Lauritsen, Claire; Houghton, Steve; Kawachi, Ichiro; McCune, Sandra (2015). "The Pet Factor – Companion Animals as a Conduit for Getting to Know People, Friendship Formation and Social Support". PLOS ONE. 10 (#4): e0122085. Bibcode: 2015PLoSO..1022085W. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122085. PMC 4414420. PMID 25924013. a b Perri, Angela R.; Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Frantz, Laurent A. F.; Larson, Greger; Malhi, Ripan S.; Meltzer, David J.; Witt, Kelsey E. (2021). "Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (#6): e2010083118. Bibcode: 2021PNAS..11810083P. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2010083118. PMC 8017920. PMID 33495362. S2CID 231712420. This timing indicates that the dog was the first species to be domesticated [9] [8] in the time of hunter–gatherers, [7] which predates agriculture. [1] DNA sequences show that all ancient and modern dogs share a common ancestry and descended from an ancient, extinct wolf population which was distinct from the modern wolf lineage. [6] [7]

Larson G (2012). "Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography". PNAS. 109 (23): 8878–8883. Bibcode: 2012PNAS..109.8878L. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1203005109. PMC 3384140. PMID 22615366. Perri, Angela R.; Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Frantz, Laurent A. F.; Larson, Greger; Malhi, Ripan S.; Meltzer, David J.; Witt, Kelsey E. (9 February 2021). "Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (6). Bibcode: 2021PNAS..11810083P. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2010083118. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 8017920. PMID 33495362. Dogs can smell and hear better than humans but cannot see well in color because they are color blind. Due to the anatomy of the eye, dogs can see better in dim light than humans. They also have a wider field of vision. Intoh, Michiko; Shigehara, Nobuo (2004). "Prehistoric pig and dog remains from Fais Island, Micronesia". Anthropological Science. 112 (3): 257–267. doi: 10.1537/ase.040511. Nikolai D. Ovodov u.a.: A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum. In: PLoS ONE 6(7), 2011 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022821

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