The canids found in Alaska date back 12,000 years ago, but Man’s Best Friend then was likely a domesticated wolf population, not the ancestors of modern dogs. Source: son_gismo / CC BY 2.0.

Man’s Best Friend: Human-Dog Ties in the Americas are 12,000 Years Old

A new study has revealed that the cooperative bond between humans and canines in the Americas may date back as far as the Late Pleistocene, some 12,000 years ago. This pushes back the evidence of our first interspecies interactions by some two millennia. The study, led by Dr. François Lanoë from the University of Arizona’s