Our oldest companions : the story of the first dogs /

Shipman, Pat, 1949-

Our oldest companions : the story of the first dogs / Pat Shipman. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. - pages cm

Pat Shipman est professeure émérite d'anthropologue à l'université d'état de Pennsylvanie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The unique relationship between dogs and humans has had huge evolutionary consequences, changing the physical, behavioral, genetic, and emotional characteristics of both species. Pat Shipman looks to fossil records and new evidence to trace how the process of domestication worked and discovers how much of ourselves we owe to our canine companions"--

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Dogs--Evolution.
Dogs--Effect of human beings on.
Coevolution.
Human-animal relationships.
Human evolution.
Paleontology.

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