How Did Ancient Humans Get Their First Dog?

How did ancient humans get their first dog? Dogs were the first animal humans domesticated, but the story of how wolves became our best friends is stranger than "a caveman tamed a wolf pup". We start at a 14,000-year-old grave in Germany where people nursed a sick puppy, sit by an Ice Age campfire, find out why you can't simply raise a wolf into a dog, look at the famous Russian fox experiment, and follow dogs as they spread across the world. Then the twist: who really tamed who? Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:03 The grave in the quarry 2:55 A winter night, twenty thousand years ago 4:57 You can't just raise a wolf 6:02 The fox experiment 7:04 Everywhere at once 8:03 The part nobody tells you 9:05 Recap 9:30 Who tamed who 10:39 Final thoughts Sources (every claim in this video was fact-checked): Wikipedia: Bonn–Oberkassel dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn%E2... Wikipedia: Oberkassel, Bonn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberkas... Don's Maps: https://donsmaps.com/oberkassel.html Leiden University press release, 2018: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/... UCL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-evolution... Live Science: https://livescience.com/61717-oldest-... Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... DOAJ: https://doaj.org/article/0087809b2603... Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... PMC commentary: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc... Smithsonian: "Dogged": https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innova... Harvard Magazine: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/index... Wikipedia: Domesticated silver fox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesti... The Scientist: https://www.the-scientist.com/famous-... Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/... Nature 276:608: https://www.nature.com/articles/276608a0 Wikipedia: ʿAin Mallaha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BFA... Archaeology: https://archaeology.org/news/2018/04/... Science News: https://www.sciencenews.org/?p=24118 Sci.News: https://www.sci.news/archaeology/five... UEA: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/... PBS NOVA: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article... Archaeology: https://www.archaeology.org/news/7769... Davidson summary: https://www.bio.davidson.edu/genomics... PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... Wikipedia: Number of gray wolves by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_... Basepaws: https://basepaws.com/blog/how-many-do... New videos regularly. If you enjoyed this, subscribe to Never Knew Till Now and tell us in the comments what surprised you most. #history #dogs #domestication