We likely selected for the trait: study
(NEWSER) - Next time your neighbor’s dog starts yapping, don’t blame the pup—blame humanity. We may be the ones who selected for barking over the course of the domestic dog’s evolution, whether directly or indirectly, a scientist says. He investigated the simple observation that while domestic dogs love to bark, wild ones hardly ever do it. The difference between wild and domestic dogs, of course, is that we’ve interfered in the evolution of the domestic ones for 50,000 years. More»
