Domestication of Pigs in Mesopotamia

The domestication of the dog was the process which led to the domestic dog.^¹ This included the dog's genetic divergence from the wolf, its domestication, and the emergence of the first dogs.^¹ Genetic studies suggest that all ancient and modern dogs share a common ancestry, descending from an ancient, now-extinct wolf population – or closely related wolf populations – which was distinct from the modern wolf lineage.^¹ The dog's similarity to the grey wolf is the result of substantial dog-into-wolf gene flow, with the modern grey wolf being the dog's nearest living relative.^¹ An extinct Late Pleistocene wolf may have been the ancestor of the dog.^¹