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City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's a popular theory about why dogs were domesticated so much earlier than everything else. Wolves have a remarkably similar lifestyle to human hunter gatherers, and so early dogs could live either in parallel or in close proximity as conditions demanded. With other creatures, like pigs or horses, humans had to run a program and do so consistently for domestication to work. In some places, semi-feral dogs are still a common sight.