Genetic studies hint that we may in fact have domesticated dogs not once, but twice. Overall, dogs are more closely related to ancient wolves from eastern Eurasia, but African and near east dogs...have up to half of their ancestry from a different wolf population.
It's possible this is from inbreeding, but it's also possible, even probable that dogs, with their natural social structure so close to ours, were in fact domesticated twice.
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