{"id":8286,"date":"2019-02-06T14:23:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2022-10-18T11:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:58:02","slug":"dog-evolution-scientific-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/dog-evolution-scientific-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog evolution: A scientific infographic of our best friend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dogs are people&#8217;s best friends&nbsp;and they evolved close to us when wolves and humans were trying to survive the cold winter without technology. Your pet&nbsp;may not look the part, but if you analyse the dna and go back&nbsp;far enough in the past, you&#8217;ll find that your dog, as all dogs,&nbsp;is descended from wolves. Gray wolves and dogs diverged from an extinct wolf species some 15,000 to 40,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-1 wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/science_figures\">Create Effective Science Figures in Minutes<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/science_figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/preview_56860-1024x341.png\" alt=\"preview_56860\" class=\"wp-image-8295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/preview_56860-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/preview_56860-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/preview_56860-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/preview_56860.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;scientific&nbsp;study<sup>1<\/sup> &nbsp;published on nature suggests that modern dogs probably descended from just one population that lived continuously in Europe. &#8220;Exactly who domesticated these wolves, when, and how many times, is still a mystery, and scientists don\u2019t agree on the answer. Dogs were probably domesticated by accident, when wolves began trailing ancient hunter-gatherers to snack on their garbage. Docile wolves may have been slipped extra food scraps, the theory goes, so they survived better, and passed on their genes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, despite scientists efforts, there are many&nbsp;controversies about the dog evolution. The article &#8220;How Accurate Is Alpha\u2019s Theory of Dog Domestication?&#8221;<sup>2<\/sup> brings us the latest studies on dog evolution and domestication:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThat the first domesticated animal was a large carnivore, who would have been a competitor for food\u2014anyone who has spent time with wild wolves would see how unlikely it was that we somehow tamed them in a way that led to domestication,\u201d says Brian Hare, director of the Duke University Canine Cognition Center.&nbsp;Hare adds that most wolves would have been fearful and aggressive towards humans\u2014because that\u2019s the way most wolves behave. But some would have been friendlier, which may have given them access to human hunter-gatherer foodstuffs. \u201cThese wolves would have had an advantage over other wolves, and the strong selection pressure on friendliness had a whole lot of byproducts, like the physical differences we see in dogs,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is self-domestication. We did not domesticate dogs. Dogs domesticated themselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using infographics we can visualize better the evolutionary relashionship between dogs and other animals. We&#8217;ve made an infographic to show the dog classification in the Animalia Kingdom (<em>Canis lupus<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/science_figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/info_dog-724x1024.png\" alt=\"info_dog\" class=\"wp-image-8293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/info_dog-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/info_dog-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/info_dog-768x1087.png 768w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/info_dog.png 1785w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-2 wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/science_figures\">Start Creating at Mind the Graph Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can create your own infographic too and&nbsp;show a different topic on dog evolution, you can even use our dog picture to illustrate. Nice, right? Just upload your dog image to our platform. And if you don&#8217;t find the illustration you want, don&#8217;t worry, just write to contact@mindthegraph.com and request a new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you excited to start your own infographic? Start now for free with <a href=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/app\/infographic-templates\">infographic templates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms16082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ancient European dog genomes reveal continuity since the Early Neolithic<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/how-wolves-really-became-dogs-180970014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Accurate Is the Theory of Dog Domestication in \u2018Alpha\u2019?<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs are people&#8217;s best friends&nbsp;and they evolved close to us when wolves and humans were trying to survive the cold winter without technology. Your pet&nbsp;may not look the part, but if you analyse the dna and go back&nbsp;far enough in the past, you&#8217;ll find that your dog, as all dogs,&nbsp;is descended from wolves. 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