NATURE

DOGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

(PART 1) – THE RISE OF THE DOG

This film explores how the domestication of dogs might have taken place, including the theory of biologist Raymond Coppinger that it was the animals themselves — and human trash — that inspired the transformation. The genetic analysis of Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has placed the origins of domesticated dogs — and those of the first dog — in East Asia.

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