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	Where Did Dogs Become Our "Best Friends"? Here is the answer....

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8-3-2009 9:35 PM

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DNA from scrappy dogs in <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/continents/continent_africa.html">African</A> villages is raising doubts about a theory that dogs first became "man's best friend" in <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/regions/region_easternasia.html">East Asia</A>.
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Based on DNA evidence, scientists believe that <A href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/domestic-dog.html">domestic dogs</A> originated from Eurasian gray <A href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wolf.html">wolves</A> sometime between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago. 
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The history of how dogs became human companions, however, remains muddy.
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In 2002 researchers had examined DNA from hundreds of dogs around the world and found that East Asian dogs are the most genetically diverse.
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Since the highest diversity should exist in the region where dogs first went <A href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/01/dogs/dogs-photography">from wolf to woof</A>, the study seemed to suggest that the dog-human bond was forged in East Asia. 
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That study included almost equal numbers of East Asian "breed" dogs and "village" dogs, said study co-author Adam Boyko, a biologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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The team found that the African village dogs' genetic diversity matches that of East Asian village dogs.
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