Ancient wolves may have self-domesticated by staying near humans for food scraps, gradually evolving into early dogs.

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.

However, for it to happen, two conditions had to be met, as per study co-author Alex Capaldi. The wolves had to choose to stay near humans to eat food scraps, and secondly, they had to select ...

So if both of those processes are in play, then it is possible for the self-domestication hypothesis to beat the time constraint critique," explained study co-author Alex Capaldi. The study's ...