The intimate relationship between a person and a dog cannot be ignored in everyday life, and there are, for example, 12 million dogs that live in homes in Germany alone.
The first ancestor of the dog (the wolf) was competing in time with the human being for food and the place in which they lived, but man managed to win the wolf as an ally and tame it.
This is what Brian Sykes talks about in his book "Darwin's Dog."
Sykes begins his book with the hypothesis: Tens of thousands of years ago, a wolf encountered a human, and that was somewhere in the Karabat Mountains, in Central and Eastern Europe, where they were competing for the same hunting.
Since the sane person was smarter than the Neanderthals, or the Neanderthal, according to those who believe in the theory of evolution and evolution, he succeeded in using wolves to help him hunt, as the role of the flock of wolves was to continue to chase the prey until they bred their powers, and then comes the role The hunter who directs his war against the animal and kills him, then the prey is shared between man and the wolf, which can be considered from today's point of view a win-win deal.
There is another hypothesis whose owners believe that the person was throwing the wolf with the remains of hunting.
Sykes, however, does not only consider this hypothesis to be "very weak", but also considers that it has become worn out, for various reasons.
According to this theory, wolves were feeding on human waste, and they approached it slowly like this.
And because wolves and large human families are similar, as there is a clear hierarchy of ranks within the human family, as well as within flocks of wolves, and there is a distribution of tasks and responsibilities. This was another reason why people chose the wolf as a companion.
Charles Darwin still believed in his time that a person may never find the first ancestor of a dog, and the jackal and prairie wolf were candidates for a long time to be the first ancestor of the dog.
But thanks to modern genetics, scientists have provided evidence that all dogs, without exception, descend from wolves, no matter how different the dogs look and no matter how far they seem to resemble their first wolf.
As the human relationship with the dog became more intimate over time, the dog's first ancestor became a symbol of evil.
Sykes determined this development by beginning to stabilize the human being, as the cattle-raising person now has interests other than those of the hunter, and the wolf that hijacks animals is no longer a companion but an enemy. It is a conflict raging from time to time between man and wolf, as we currently find in Germany, for example.
- Tens of thousands of years ago, the wolf encountered a person in the Karabat Mountains, while they were competing for the same hunting.