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Science 22 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5598, pp. 1634 - 1636
DOI: 10.1126/science.1072702
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The Domestication of Social Cognition in Dogs
Brian Hare,12*
Michelle Brown,1
Christina Williamson,3
Michael Tomasello2
Dogs are more skillful than great apes at a number of
tasks in which they must read human communicative signals indicating the location of hidden food. In this study, we found that wolves who
were raised by humans do not show these same skills, whereas domestic
dog puppies only a few weeks old, even those that have had little human
contact, do show these skills. These findings suggest that during the
process of domestication, dogs have been selected for a set of
social-cognitive abilities that enable them to communicate with humans
in unique ways.
1 Department of Anthropology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
2 Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
3 Wolf Hollow Wolf Sanctuary, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.
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To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
bhare{at}fas.harvard.edu
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