Dogs Domesticated Earlier Than Thought

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Dogs Domesticated Earlier Than Thought

January 30, 2012 | ISSUE 48•05

The discovery of a jawbone in a Siberian cave may indicate the domestication of dogs took place 30,000 years ago, 16,000 years earlier than previously thought. What do you think?

Those dogs must have had some really stupid names.

Darren Landmark
Systems Analyst
Siberia can have its dogs and its caves. Cats and pyramids in Egypt is what I'm talking about.

Alice Peters
Unemployed
So, by my calculations, that makes 200,756 more sobbing sons who watched as their dads put the old boys down.

Devin Coombs
Plant Guide

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