title: Humanity's Dual Response to Dogs and Wolves.
abstract: Dogs were first domesticated 31 000-41 000 years ago. Humanity has experienced ecological costs and benefits from interactions with dogs and wolves. We propose that humans inherited a dual response of attraction or aversion that expresses itself independently to domestic and wild canids. The dual response has had far-reaching consequences for the ecology and evolution of all three taxa, including today's global 'ecological paw print' of 1 billion dogs and recent eradications of wolves.
authors.affiliation: Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, 30A Science Hall, 550 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Electronic address: atreves@wisc.edu.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Treves
authors.affiliation: Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, 30A Science Hall, 550 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA; Department of Ecosystems and the Environment, School of Agriculture and Forestry Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Casilla 306, Correo 22 Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bonacic
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004285:Dogs; D004463:Ecology; D006801:Humans; D019596:Wolves
keywords: canids; coevolution; commensalism; competition; domestication; evolutionary ecology