Early Human Evolution Influenced by Dogs

Hello!

This is a known concept to the lucky people who work every day with one of Jennifer Arnold's service dogs that she trains at Canine Assistants, one of the premier service dog providers in the U.S.. Jennifer is CEO of the agency taking an active role in educating each group of recipients and their caretakers on a quarterly basis year after year.

One of our first lectures in class by Jennifer was that early man was so influenced by dogs that it literally changed the course of human history. From National Geographic comes a corroborating article from research done by Pat Shipman, retired adjunct professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.

Ms. Shipman feels that early humans that used a dog or wolf-like ancestor to both species were superior hunters to the Neanderthals, hastening their final regression in the human species timeline. Jennifer Arnold feels that the human-dog bond occurred with such force, and such success that it explains why a dog can smell greater than 40,000x better than the average human, and why a dog's superior hearing would be an advantage to ur not-so-hot hearing abilities.

So what did humans bring to this history changing enterprise? A logical brain, superior tool-making abilities. Neanderthals used spears close-up, because they had no dogs to track a wounded prey, humans had tools that could take down prey at a distance, mitigating either themselves or their dogs getting wounded in the hunt a win win for both.

It's hard to imagine Fluffy has descended from such interesting doggie individuals in the murky mists of time, however it's true. The human-canine bond is one of the most successful and lengthy collaborations in the history of our earth.

Our dogs of today and humans have many characteristics in common, which is why even in our over technical age dogs still give important services to the human race. We both are social creatures, protect our young and teach them, we both are empathetic and emotional beings and seem to 'get' or understand where each is coming from more often than not. There are of course the epic fails when humans and canines misinterpret one another's actions with bad results all around. Thankfully that is less often than one would think by reading the popular media.

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