How Ancient Humans Accidentally Created the Dog

How Ancient Humans Accidentally Created the Dog: nobody planned it. Wolves that were a little less afraid of people stayed closer to their camps, and over thousands of years that tolerance turned into the dog. In this video you'll find out how ancient humans and wolves ended up together without anyone trying: the 14,000-year-old Bonn-Oberkassel grave, where a puppy sick with canine distemper was cared for over weeks; why some scientists think wolves partly domesticated themselves around human camps; what Dmitri Belyaev's 1959 silver fox experiment shows about how taming can change a body; and why dogs have a muscle that lets them raise their inner eyebrows. Your dog's look when it wants something may be a very old trick that works on a very old brain. Researchers suggest that expression helped dogs get fed and kept, and the ancient humans who knelt over a sick animal were running the same instincts you still have. We also cover what is still unknown: when wolves and dogs split, and why people first kept dogs at all. Chapters: 0:00 The sick puppy in the dark 1:31 The 14,000-year-old puppy grave 4:13 The wolf walked up to us 6:24 The Siberian fox experiment 8:20 The puppy-eyebrow muscle 10:09 What we still don't know 11:34 Back to the person in the dark Subscribe to ToonSapiens: new videos on how your ancient brain got here. #AncientHumans #DogDomestication #ToonSapiens