Research Article
Wolfgang M. Schleidt & Michael D. Shalter
Human Ethology Bulletin, Volume 33, No 1, 15-38, published March 25, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22330/heb/331/015-038
ABSTRACT
As an alternative to the domestication hypothesis, it has been proposed that “Wolves met humans in a phase of human apprenticeship to wolf pastoralism and, in a subsequent process of coevolution, wolves turned into dogs.” (Schleidt, 1998, p. 4).
Here we provide an update in the context of new information, notably on Pleistocene climate and ecology, and new insights from canid and human genetics and genomics.
Keywords: Human, wolf, dog, evolution, coevolution, domestication, pastoralism.
Earlier publications by W.M. Schleidt:
Schleidt, W.M. (1998). Is humaneness canine? Human Ethology Bulletin, 13(4), 1-4.
Schleidt, W. M., & Shalter, M. D. (2003). Co-evolution of humans and canids: An alternative view of dog domestication: HOMO HOMINI LUPUS? Evolution and Cognition 9(1): 57-72.
ISSN: 2224-4476
