How Did Ancient Humans Get the First Dog?

Ancient humans didn't set out to build a dog. They selected for one thing only — a wolf that could stay calm near people — and everything else arrived for free: the floppy ears, the curled tail, the patches, the shorter face. In this video: what "domestication" actually means, why flight distance is the real dividing line between a pet and a wild animal, what the Bonn-Oberkassel burial tells us about how far the relationship had already gone 14,200 years ago, and why a Soviet geneticist breeding foxes in Novosibirsk in 1959 proved the whole thing on purpose — while officially running a fur farm. #ancienthumans #dogs #wolves #evolution #genetics #history #science #animals