domestication

So apparently bears are hanging around humanity quite a bit now, which is making them fat and lazy and also endangering them rather. I believe the prevailing theory of how dogs were domesticated tells a rather similar story - wolves started hanging around human camps eating our garbage...

The hypothesis ran that modern dogs were domesticated from wolves in East Asia, but evidence is not supporting this idea. They are thinking that dogs were domesticated in the Caucasus region now, which really caught my eye. Recent evidence suggests that horses were domesticated there, and now...