{"id":431,"date":"2017-08-14T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/?p=431"},"modified":"2021-06-03T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:23:38","slug":"pat-shipman-we-turned-wolves-into-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/2017\/08\/14\/pat-shipman-we-turned-wolves-into-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Shipman: &#8220;We turned wolves into dogs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/5e957b9f339fe2a164bb4536\/5e957bbc3bd94228345c18cf?theme=light&#038;cover=true\" frameBorder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"100%\" height=\"110\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a title=\"Pat Shipman home page\" href=\"http:\/\/anth.la.psu.edu\/people\/pls10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pat Shipman<\/a>\u2019s book, <em>The Invaders<\/em> (Harvard University Press), she argues that our last close relative, the Neanderthals, were driven to extinction not solely by climate change \u2013 though that played its part \u2013 but by the incursion of an invasive species: homo sapiens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/shipman-invaders-cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-433\" width=\"572\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/shipman-invaders-cover.png 388w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/shipman-invaders-cover-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We modern humans \u2013 the invaders of Pat\u2019s title \u2013 completely changed the ecosystem when we arrived in Eurasia between 45 and 50 thousand years ago and made life much tougher for our Neanderthal cousins. One of our critical advantages, Shipman believes, may have been that we domesticated the wolf as a hunting companion much earlier than previously thought, as early as 32,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"box yellow-box\">\n&#8220;I argue that the technical advance that made humans so irresistible and so invasive \u2013 from 50,000 years ago until today \u2013 was in part their ability to form [an] unprecedented alliance with another species that we call domestication.<\/p>\n<p>We turned wolves into dogs and much later, mouflon into goats, wild aurochs into cattle, wild cats into house cats, and horses into a rapid transit system.<\/p>\n<p>We created for ourselves an ability to borrow the traits of other species and use them to enhance our own survival in almost every habitat on the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/337835529&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pat Shipman\u2019s book, The Invaders (Harvard University Press), she argues that our last close relative, the Neanderthals, were driven to extinction not solely by climate change \u2013 though that&hellip; <a class=\"excerpt-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/2017\/08\/14\/pat-shipman-we-turned-wolves-into-dogs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,2,9],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-from-the-archive","category-history","category-natural-history","tag-podcast"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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