{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Salomons H"],"funding":["Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development","NICHD NIH HHS","American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation","National Institutes of Health","Office of Naval Research","National Science Foundation"],"pagination":["3137-3144.e11"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8610089"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["31(14)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Although we know that dogs evolved from wolves, it remains unclear how domestication affected dog cognition. One hypothesis suggests dog domestication altered social maturation by a process of selecting for an attraction to humans.<sup>1-3</sup> Under this account, dogs became more flexible in using inherited skills to cooperatively communicate with a new social partner that was previously feared and expressed these unusual social skills early in development.<sup>4-6</sup> Here, we comparedog (n = 44) and wolf (n = 37) puppies, 5-18 weeks old, on a battery of temperament and cognition tasks. We find that dog puppies are more attracted to humans, read human gestures more skillfully, and make more eye contact with humans than wolf puppies. The two species are similarly attracted to familiar "],"journal":["Current biology : CB"],"pubmed_title":["Cooperative Communication with Humans Evolved to Emerge Early in Domestic Dogs."],"pmcid":["PMC8610089"],"funding_grant_id":["DGE-1746060","2700","R01 HD097732","N00014-16-12682","NIH-1R01HD097732"],"pubmed_authors":["Salomons H","Smith KCM","Gruen M","Gnanadesikan GE","Tan J","Horschler DJ","MacLean EL","Hare B","Callahan-Beckel M","Bray EE","Callahan M","White P","Levy K","Kennedy BS","vonHoldt BM"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Cooperative Communication with Humans Evolved to Emerge Early in Domestic Dogs.","description":"Although we know that dogs evolved from wolves, it remains unclear how domestication affected dog cognition. One hypothesis suggests dog domestication altered social maturation by a process of selecting for an attraction to humans.<sup>1-3</sup> Under this account, dogs became more flexible in using inherited skills to cooperatively communicate with a new social partner that was previously feared and expressed these unusual social skills early in development.<sup>4-6</sup> Here, we comparedog (n = 44) and wolf (n = 37) puppies, 5-18 weeks old, on a battery of temperament and cognition tasks. We find that dog puppies are more attracted to humans, read human gestures more skillfully, and make more eye contact with humans than wolf puppies. The two species are similarly attracted to familiar ","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Jul","modification":"2025-05-29T21:25:15.985Z","creation":"2024-11-08T17:05:45.515Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8610089","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34256018"],"doi":["10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.051"]}}