Nature

Season 25, Episode 11

Episode Title: Dogs That Changed The World: The Rise of the Dog

Air Date: 2007-04-22

Overview:

Exploring how the domestication of dogs might have taken place, including the theory of biologist Raymond Coppinger that it was the animals themselves — and human trash — that inspired the transformation. The genetic analysis of Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has placed the origins of domesticated dogs — and those of the first dog — in East Asia.