Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dogs</span></a> may have <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/domesticated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>domesticated</span></a> themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests<br>Competing theories explain how dogs came to be domesticated from <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/wolves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wolves</span></a>. Now, a new study adds further support to the idea that they domesticated themselves.<br><a href="https://www.livescience.com/animals/dogs/dogs-may-have-domesticated-themselves-because-they-really-liked-snacks-model-suggests" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/animals/dogs/d</span><span class="invisible">ogs-may-have-domesticated-themselves-because-they-really-liked-snacks-model-suggests</span></a></p>