Humans Had Dogs Much Earlier Than Thought
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March 25, 2026
Long before humans planted their first crops, they were apparently feeding something else: dogs. Two new DNA studies in Nature push the earliest confirmed dogs in Europe and Western Asia back to at least 15,800 years ago, showing they were living with hunter-gatherers thousands of years before agriculture. Researchers...
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