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    hypothesis that the benefits of cooperative hunting was an important factor in wolf domestication.[39] The cohabitation of dogs and humans would have greatly improved the chances of survival for early human groups, and the domestication of dogs may have been one of the key forces that led to human success.[40] Emigrants from Siberia likely crossed the Bering land bridge with dogs in their company, and some experts[41] suggest the use of sled dogs may have been critical to the success of the waves that entered North America roughly 12,000 years ago,[41] although the earliest archaeological evidence of dog-like canids in North America dates from about 9,400 years ago.[34]:104[42] Dogs were an important part of life for the Athabascan population in North America, and were their only domesticated animal. Dogs also carried much of the load in the migration of the Apache and Navajo tribes 1,400 years ago. Use of dogs as pack animals in these cultures often persisted after the introduction of the horse to North America.[43]

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    hypothesis that the benefits of cooperative hunting was an important factor in wolf domestication.[39] The cohabitation of dogs and humans would have greatly improved the chances of survival for early human groups, and the domestication of dogs may have been one of the key forces that led to human success.[40] Emigrants from Siberia likely crossed the Bering land bridge with dogs in their company, and some experts[41] suggest the use of sled dogs may have been critical to the success of the waves that entered North America roughly 12,000 years ago,[41] although the earliest archaeological evidence of dog-like canids in North America dates from about 9,400 years ago.[34]:104[42] Dogs were an important part of life for the Athabascan population in North America, and were their only domesticated animal. Dogs also carried much of the load in the migration of the Apache and Navajo tribes 1,400 years ago. Use of dogs as pack animals in these cultures often persisted after the introduction of the horse to North America.[43]

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    hypothesis that the benefits of cooperative hunting was an important factor in wolf domestication.[39] The cohabitation of dogs and humans would have greatly improved the chances of survival for early human groups, and the domestication of dogs may have been one of the key forces that led to human success.[40] Emigrants from Siberia likely crossed the Bering land bridge with dogs in their company, and some experts[41] suggest the use of sled dogs may have been critical to the success of the waves that entered North America roughly 12,000 years ago,[41] although the earliest archaeological evidence of dog-like canids in North America dates from about 9,400 years ago.[34]:104[42] Dogs were an important part of life for the Athabascan population in North America, and were their only domesticated animal. Dogs also carried much of the load in the migration of the Apache and Navajo tribes 1,400 years ago. Use of dogs as pack animals in these cultures often persisted after the introduction of the horse to North America.[43]

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    Wolves, and their dog descendants, would have derived significant benefits from
    living in human camps more safety, more reliable food, lesser caloric needs, and m
    ore chance to breed.[37] They would have benefited from humans' upright gait tha
    t gives them larger range over which to see potential predators and prey, as wel
    l as color vision that, at least by day, gives humans better visual discriminati
    on.[37] Camp dogs would also have benefited from human tool use, as in bringing
    down larger prey and controlling fire for a range of purposes.[37]
    Humans would also have derived enormous benefit from the dogs associated with th
    eir camps.[38] For instance, dogs would have improved sanitation by cleaning up
    food scraps.[38] Dogs may have provided warmth, as referred to in the Australian
    Aboriginal expression "three dog night" (an exceptionally cold night), and they
    A German Shepherd with a football
    Domestic dogs inherited complex behaviors, such as bite inhibition, from their w
    olf ancestors, which would have been pack hunters with complex body language. Th
    ese sophisticated forms of social cognition and communication may account for th
    eir trainability, playfulness, and ability to fit into human households and soci
    al situations, and these attributes have given dogs a relationship with humans t
    hat has enabled them to become one of the most successful species on the planet
    today.[34]:pages95-136
    The dogs' value to early human hunter-gatherers led to them quickly becoming

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