The origin of dogs’ domestication may lie in cavemen feeding excess meat to wolves at the end of the last Ice Age, a study has found.
The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, is based on an analysis of how much lean meat Eurasian hunter-gatherers would have been able to consume.
Dogs are descendants of wolves and were the first animal to be domesticated by humans.
It is thought that humans living during the last Ice Age - somewhere between 14,000 to 29,000 years ago - were in direct competition with wolves when it came to hunting prey.