DESPITE our best attempts to work out when people first brought dogs to heel, it appears that man’s best friend it still giving us the runaround.
Peter Savolainen and his team at the Royal Institution of Technology in Stockholm carried out a major genetic analysis of more than 650 domestic dogs. They found that all dogs are descended from just a few grey wolves that roamed east Asia some 15,000 years ago.
But Robert Wayne of the University of California at Los Angeles, who has used a similar technique to show that early humans first took domestic dogs to…
