Opinion
Top dogs: wolf domestication and wealth
Author affiliations
1 Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Abingdon OX13 5QL, UK
2 Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Genetics Section, Bldg 560, Rm 11-26, National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research Facility, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, USA
Citation and License
Journal of Biology 2010, 9:10 doi:10.1186/jbiol226
Published: 24 February 2010Abstract
A phylogeographic analysis of gene sequences important in determining body size in dogs, recently published in BMC Biology, traces the appearance of small body size to the Neolithic Middle East. This finding strengthens the association of this event with the development of sedentary societies, and perhaps even has implications for the inception of human social inequality.
See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/16/
