sábado, 6 de agosto de 2016

Humanity's dual response to wolves & dogs



Treves and Bonacic. 2016.  Humanity's dual response to wolves & dogs. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. TREE

A very interesting paper by Treves & Bonacic about how humans have had a very different dual response towards wolves and dogs.

Here the abstract:

Dogs were first domesticated 31 000–41 000 years ago. Humanity has experienced ecological costs and benefits from interactions with dogs and wolves. We propose that humans inherited a dual response of attraction or aversion that expresses itself independently to domestic and wild canids. The dual response has had far-reaching consequences for the ecology and evolution of all three taxa, including today's global ‘ecological paw print’ of 1 billion dogs and recent eradications of wolves.

Treves and Bonacic. 2016.  Humanity's dual response to wolves & dogs. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. TREE

(unfortunatelly it is not OPEN access so you have to either purchase it or download it in an academic institution that is subscribed to TREE)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534716300404