Some argued that humans first domesticated wolves in Europe, while others claimed this happened in Central Asia or China. Updated Fri, June 3rd 2016 at 08:21 GMT +3Dogs may have been domesticated not once, as widely believed, but twice, once in Europe and once in Central Asia or China, a major study said Thursday. Most dogs today are a mixture of both Eastern and Western dogs -- one reason why previous genetic studies have been difficult to interpret, they said. Combined, these new findings led the researchers to believe that dogs were first domesticated from geographically separated wolf populations on opposite sides of the Eurasian continent. At some point after their domestication, the eastern dogs dispersed with migrating humans into Europe where they mixed with and mostly replaced the earliest European dogs.

Source: Standard Digital June 02, 2016 20:37 UTC