Competing theories explain how dogs came to be domesticated from wolves. Now, a new study adds further support to the idea that they domesticated themselves.
That’s not a very good headline. Of course they did it for food, the model was about whether they could have domesticated themselves fast enough without being forced.
I’ll have to actually look into the research; I have trouble imagining how one would model that in silico.
Edit: A link. Looks like they assumed human tolerance only effects odds of getting human food, and is (except for occasion mutants) inherited as a random point in between the mother and father’s.
That’s not a very good headline. Of course they did it for food, the model was about whether they could have domesticated themselves fast enough without being forced.
I’ll have to actually look into the research; I have trouble imagining how one would model that in silico.
Edit: A link. Looks like they assumed human tolerance only effects odds of getting human food, and is (except for occasion mutants) inherited as a random point in between the mother and father’s.