In this podcast, Dr. Robert Wayne, of the University of California Los Angeles, discusses his team's use of DNA analysis to shed light on just where the domestication process that led to modern dogs began. This podcast relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 November, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Olaf Thalmann at the University of Turku in Turku, Finland, and colleagues was titled, "Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs."
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