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What Dogs Gave Us

We domesticated dogs. And dogs, in return, made human civilization possible. Work with me here. A lot of my recent reading has been about human origins, stemming from my fascination with Homo Neanderthalis and what became of him. Two books of note: The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond (1993) and Before the Dawn by Nicholas [...]