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Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests (www.livescience.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's not a very good headline. Of course they did it for food, the model was about whether they could have domesticated themselves fast enough without being forced.

I'll have to actually look into the research; I have trouble imagining how one would model that in silico.

Edit: A link. Looks like they assumed human tolerance only effects odds of getting human food, and is (except for occasion mutants) inherited as a random point in between the mother and father's.