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Dog domestication happened many times, but most didn’t pan out - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/dog-domestication-happened-many-times-but-most-didnt-pan-out/

All modern dogs trace their roots to a single group of wolves (now extinct) that lived in Siberia around 23,000 years ago. But sometime between 11,300 and 12,800 years ago, the canines from Hollembaek Hill and another Alaskan site called Swan Point had dog DNA that doesn’t seem related to modern dogs at all. That may suggest that dog domestication was a process that happened several times in different places, creating several branches of a dog family tree, but only one stuck around in the long run.

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