{"id":1194,"date":"2015-06-01T19:29:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:34:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:34:22","slug":"mans-best-friend-might-be-older-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/animal-science\/mans-best-friend-might-be-older-than-we-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Man&#8217;s Best Friend Might Be Older Than We Thought&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could dogs have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2015\/05\/21\/the-dog-has-been-mans-best-friend-for-much-longer-than-we-thought-a-study-suggests\/\" target=\"_blank\">been around a lot longer than we thought<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11.5px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px;\"><em>A group of researchers discovered an ancient wolf bone and say its DNA suggests dogs diverged from wolves 27,000 to 40,000 years ago &#8212; not 11,000 to 16,000 years ago, as previous research has suggested.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11.5px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an interesting finding\u00a0&#8212; not just because we love dogs and are fascinated by them (though that certainly helps), but the earlier date suggests dogs lived with humans during hunter-gatherer times, rather than after the advent of agriculture. Very cool read!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1196\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1196\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1196 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CoolWolf.jpg\" alt=\"Cool Wolf\" width=\"450\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CoolWolf.jpg 450w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CoolWolf-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center>Did dogs diverge from wolves earlier than we thought?<\/center><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the report\u00a0here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(15)00432-7\" target=\"_blank\">Ancient Wolf Genome Reveals an Early Divergence of Domestic Dog Ancestors and Admixture into High-Latitude Breeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could dogs have been around a lot longer than we thought? A group of researchers discovered an ancient wolf bone and say its DNA suggests dogs diverged from wolves 27,000 to 40,000 years ago &#8212; not 11,000 to 16,000 years ago, as previous research has suggested. This is an interesting finding\u00a0&#8212; not just because we [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}