Cachorros, Neandertais e Humanos

O que explica o desaparecimento dos neander? Uma nova hipótese para explicar o quebra-cabeças é o de que os humanos domesticaram os cães e esses lhes deram uma vantagem competitiva, principalmente na caça, aumentando a provisão de carne, melhorando a alimentação e reforçando a reprodução humana: All but one of the six Paleolithic dog sites that have so far been identified preserve large quantities of mammoth bone which, with meat attached, must have been lugged from the kill site to where the group was living. If the dogs carried the meat, humans would have saved a lot of energy, so each kill would have provided a greater net gain in food—even after feeding the dogs. Additional food generally has marked effects on the health of a group. Better-fed females can have more babies, can provide them with more milk and can have babies at shorter intervals. Before long, using pack dogs could have caused the human population to increase.