Man's Best Friend for 33,000 Years

…Dogs became self-domesticated as they slowly evolved from wolves who joined humans in the hunt, according to the first study of dog genomes.

And it shows that the first domesticated dogs came about 33,000 years ago … in southern East Asia… and migrated to Europe, rather than descending from domesticated European wolves 10,000 years ago as had previously been thought. … several basic aspects about the origin and evolution of the domestic dog are still in dispute including several different geographical regions as the proposed birthplace of domestic dogs, and estimations of the date of divergence between wolves and dogs…