Artificial Selection and the Evolution of Domestic Dogs

Lesson Summary

This lesson explores how scientists use data to draw inferences about evolutionary relationships and how humans engage in artificial selection, even without consciously meaning to! In this lesson, students will learn about dog domestication and a new study that provides insights and evidence into how and why domestic dogs and wolves have diverged.

Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to: 

• analyze data and observations to draw inferences about domestic dog evolution.

• explain one theory for how dog domestication could have occurred. 

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