Palaeolithic dog skulls at the Gravettian Předmostí site, the Czech Republic

Germonpré, Mietje; Lázničková‐Galetová, Martina; Sablin, Mikhail

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.09.022

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“…However, Paleolithic dogs may have signaled resources or dominance more so than parental investment. European Paleolithic dogs weighed approxi-mately 35 kg (GERMONPRÉ, LÁZNIČKOVÁ-GALETOVÁ and SABLIN 2012), about the size of a German Shepherd, and were probably very useful in hunting: finding the prey, stopping and carrying it back to camp (GERMONPRÉ, LÁZNIČKOVÁ-GALETOVÁ and SABLIN 2012). Among present day Aka and Bofi, dogs also play a clear functional hunting role with no apparent emotional relationship (LUPO 2011).…”

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Dog ownership increases attractiveness and attenuates perceptions of short-term mating strategy in cad-like men

Tifferet¹,

Kruger²,

Bar-Lev³

et al. 2013

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

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Abstract. Men may have evolved to specialize in short-term "cad" and long-term "dad" mating strategies. We hypothesized that dog ownership would increase the long-term attractiveness of men, especially for cads, as this would signal nurturance and suggest tendencies for relationship commitment. Women read vignettes in an experiment with four conditions varying by male mating strategy described (dad vs. cad) and dog ownership (yes vs. no mention). Dog ownership and the dad vignette increased ratings of long-term attractiveness. Higher ratings of long-term attractiveness for cads were mediated by lower ratings of the character on tendencies for a short-term mating strategy.Keywords: costly signal, dogs, life history, male attractiveness, mate selection Male mating strategies DRAPER and BELSKY (1990) propose that men have evolved to specialize in either short-term "cad" or long-term "dad" mating strategies. Cads invest relatively more effort in mating and less in parenting compared to dads: they are highly competitive, socially dominant, and brave. Such traits make them attractive for short-term relationships cross-culturally (DRAPER and BELSKY 1990;KRUGER, FISHER and JOBLING 2003;LI and KENRICK 2006), perhaps because of their phenotypic and behavioral features signaling 'good genes' (GANGESTAD and SIMPSON 2000). Dads, on the other hand, invest more effort in parenting and less in mating. They attract women because they are compassionate, kind, romantic, and industrious, demonstrating the ability and willingness to invest in the relationship and potential children. These traits make them attractive for long-term relationships cross-culturally

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Dog ownership increases attractiveness and attenuates perceptions of short-term mating strategy in cad-like men

Tifferet¹,

Kruger²,

Bar-Lev³

et al. 2013

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

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“…Ancient mtDNA recovered from a 33,000-year-old canid from southern Siberia's Altai Mountains that aligns it with dogs, rather than wolves, also highlights this general area, but at a much earlier period (Druzhkova et al 2013). The possibility that dogs were domesticated earlier in the late Pleistocene than generally believed is also raised by Thalmann et al (2013), who locate their origins in Europe some 19,000-32,000 years ago, a possibility canvassed on osteological grounds by Germonpré et al (2009Germonpré et al ( , 2012Germonpré et al ( , 2015 and recently popularised by Shipman (2015). However, the biometric basis for identifying any large canids in Early Upper Palaeolithic Europe as dogs remains controversial (Boudadi-Maligne and Escarguel 2014;Morey 2014).…”

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Disease: A Hitherto Unexplored Constraint on the Spread of Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in Pre-Columbian South America

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2017

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“…Germonpré et al (2015a) objected to bases for rejecting a series of canid skulls dating between about 36,000 and 15,000 years BP as dogs. Included are specimens from Goyet Cave, Belgium , Předmostí, the Czech Republic, (Germonpré et al, , 2015b, Eliseevichi 1, Russia (Sablin and Khlopachev, 2002;Germonpré et al, 2009Germonpré et al, , 2012, and Mezin and Mezhirich, Ukraine . Though not covered by Germonpré et al (2015a), for the sake of completeness this presentation includes the ca.…”

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“…As noted by Hare et al (2012) such shifts in behavioral tendencies are associated with physiological changes in numerous domesticates, changes sometimes referred to collectively as the domestication syndrome. Significantly, Předmostí canids designated as dogs by Germonpré et al (2012) exhibit some osteological traits in the direction of the domestication syndrome. Included are proportionally shortened snouts with correspondingly broad palates.…”

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“…Left unaddressed in that study, though, is the issue of why canid domestication likely occurred during that interval. left that issue uncovered, given the importance of addressing recent studies that had sought, on archaeological grounds, to advance cases for a much earlier onset of canid domestication, in some cases well exceeding thirty thousand years ago (e.g., Germonpré et al, 2009Germonpré et al, , 2012Ovodov et al, 2011). Those cases were not found convincing (see also Crockford and Kuzmin, 2012;Boudadi-Maligne and Escarguel, 2014;Drake et al, 2015), and all things considered, the time range of 16-17,000 years ago now seems most plausible.…”

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