Ancient dogs’ diet holds key to their domestication

Scientists have long known that the domestic dog evolved from the wolf, but they could never pinpoint exactly what changed in the wolf that turned him into man’s best friend — until now.

Researchers at Sweden’s Uppsala University have discovered that the key to canine evolution lies in something unexpected: cereal.

Using a side-by-side comparison of the genomes of wolves and the genomes of the…

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