From Wolf to Dog by Virginia Morell is an article from the Scientific American written in July of 2015. In this article, Morell talks about the new discovery scientists have found proving earlier assumptions of dog’s evolution wrong. Before the new evidence arose, we always thought grey wolves were where dogs came from. That further back in time, Man decided to domesticate the grey wolves in their time. But Morell explains that this isn’t actually where our best friends came from. One woman who raised wolves from pups in captivity said that, unlike a dog, if you tell a wolf not to eat a steak on a plate on the table, they will look you in the eye and eat it. She explains that if you tell this to a dog, they will listen. Dogs will stay loyal …show more content…
With this new evidence, scientists have come to believe that there was a species of wolves several thousand years ago that decided to live close to humans. This is most likely due to the fact that humans had left overs that they didn’t use. This was a source of easy food. Once the wolves started hanging around, they became less afraid, and humans became less afraid of them as well. They soon began to benefit from each other. The wolves would sniff out prey for the humans, and we would then give them leftovers in return. There was evidence that they didn’t eat mammoth, the main prey of the humans then. This led to the idea that humans brought wolf pups into their camps, perhaps after killing the adults like they did with other animals they brought to camp. They would then leave them tied up and feed them their scraps. It seems that humans could have used their wolf-dogs as a ready sacrifice for the rituals they did. This is how they began to breed them. This made the wolf-dogs less and less fearful with every generation, creating the early domesticated