According to new research, dogs became man's best friend thanks to a gene that lowered stress.
It made dogs more relaxed around people, enabling the special relationship to develop.
Man's proverbial first best friend was a grey wolf that made contact with its first human companions about 33,000 years ago, somewhere in Southeast Asia. Man's best friend descends from wolves and its domestication has baffled evolutionary experts for decades.) was the first domesticated animal and hundreds of breeds exist today.
The former group consisted of those considered genetically closer to wolves, such as the Akita and Siberian husky.
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