Dogs May Have Played Role in Extinction of Neanderthals
In “The Invaders,” anthropologist Pat Shipman argues that dogs may have been pivotal in humans outlasting Neanderthals. What's her theory for how the early pets became man’s best friend? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.
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the story of the dog human partnership with all my science is the dog's first over ... fifteen thousand years ... at the end of the last ice ... they were the offspring of scavenger will ... who wandered into the villages established by humans ... where over time they became domesticated ... what is that prices have been earlier much earlier ... at a turning point in human history ... is a forty thousand years ago Neanderthals Rome modern day Europe and Central Asia ... based on false lashes and genetic analysis scientists believe that free time ... modern humans who migrated out of Africa Iran hundred thousand years ago ... lived amongst the Neanderthals but not for long ... walks on now and remains holiday among archaeologists is wat why the commander of all ... among the more popular theories ... the Neanderthals lost the competition for food ... our human ancestors ... why that happened ... Andrew that he ... knew he ... laid out a new book by anthropologists had shipment titled ... invaders ... argues that humans and their dogs drove Neanderthals to extinction ... humans and their dogs ... dogs well sort of mission to use the term wolf dogs to describe the animal she believes were ice age man's first and best friend ... wolf dogs because their skills remains discovered in Central Eastern Europe ... differ from those of old walls and dogs ... how did wolf dogs help humans ... here's the scenario new shipment actions ... manage this early stage began investigating walls selecting the wolf pups that were most interested in hanging out with humans that work best to communicate with us eventually a partnership between animal don't know ... the people are hunters the walls were hunters so they had some or all she says Greg and a haunting she says Neanderthals use less sophisticated instruments ... using stone tips your stakeholder ... versus human stupid two brothers Peter ... recorded a one dog theory in the competition for calories ... it was humans partnership with the keen on it gave us the edge the wolf dog could try ... and hire out for a ... Rhinos mountain goats wild horses and woolly mammoth ... he has a lot less energy to go in for the kill ... once the mammoth went down ... the watch dog shifted will ... be keen on guard duty to defend the carcass ... could warn their humans when other carnivores including regular ... in return for their service is the wolf dogs would get a nice meal for themselves so argues it wasn't necessarily warfare between species did to the ungrateful and as climate got colder and competition for food fiercer ... humans monopolize the Availble pray ... that the Neanderthal stopped ... what proof does she have ... the she how she says are the Wolf Top fossils themselves and their being discovered by archaeologists ... among sometimes hundreds of mammoths what she doesn't have yet she admits ... his genetic evidence ... that