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onlyrealcuzzo

I would imagine dogs could be a special case. We evolved together.

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> We evolved together.

Source?

I enjoyed this lecture about dog evolution and domestication.

https://youtu.be/CiD-qZDl9jQ

15,000 years of domestication

Not really "evolution" for humans but we wouldn't have things like Chihuahuas or Pugs without humans breeding dogs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93canine_bond

Actually, that's plenty of time for meaningful evolution in humans too. Lots of changes in general distributions in response to environmental influences occur in that time.

On the last 15k years, I’m not sure about changes in our own species. That’s why I found the “together” an strange affirmation.

We don’t have any specific genes to point to like with lactose tolerance but humans have definitely coevolved with dogs, especially pastoralists and hunters.

With dogs most of the obvious coevolution has just been cultural.

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