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A primal dog is a hypothetical domestic dog, which for the first time clearly distinguished itself genetically and possibly also phenotypically from its original form, the wolf. The date of domestication of the wolf is controversial; scientific estimates vary from 100,000 to 13,000 years before the present. Edit Genetically Urhundtexttext

Results from genetic investigations show that the domestication of the wolf by humans has happened several times independently of each other. An investigation at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle concluded that the existing dog breeds can be genetically assigned to four different domestication events.

Even after its first domestication, the domestic dog may have resembled the wolf for a long time, which is why a clear classification of older fossil finds is not always possible. The oldest fossil evidence for the existence of the domestic dog comes from the Jung- and late Palaeolithic. Urhund TheoryComplete text

As a "primal dog" (Canis ferus), a hypothetical dog species was also known in the past, which had existed next to the wolf and was the ancestor of the ancestors of our domestic dogs. One of the most famous representatives of this theory is the cynologist Theophil Studer.

The biologist Konrad Lorenz was of the opinion that beside the wolf also the golden jackal played a role in the domestication of the domestic dog. This theory enjoyed popularity, especially in the German-speaking world, but has since been disproved by DNA analyzes that prove that the domestic dog is derived exclusively from the wolf. Single-level Edit source text

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