Tracking footprints of artificial selection in the dog genome: The size, shape, and behavior of the modern domesticated dog has been sculpted by artificial selection for at least 14,000 years. The ...

I received a number of very interesting comments about my essay, and some got me to muse on how artificial selection imposed by humans past and present would give way to different forms of natural ...

Dogs are our companions, but they're also living proof of artificial selection. Dogs have coevolved and adapted to live in a human world. Dr. Sarah Byosiere, a dog cognition researcher, walks through ...

Dog domestication may have inadvertently led to harmful genetic changes, a new study suggests. Domestication of dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago involved artificial selection and ...

Through intensive breeding, humans have pushed breeds such as pug dogs and Persian cats to evolve with very similar skulls and "smushed" faces, so they're more similar to each other than they are to ...

They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have become dogs in as little as 8,000 years. A coastal wolf on British Columbia's ...

How will dogs reshape and redecorate nature in a world without humans? In a previous essay called "As Dogs Go Wild in a World Without Us, How Might They Cope?" I wrote about how dogs might adapt to a ...