Popular thinking has it that the humans domesticated the wolf about 15,000 years ago in the Mesolithic period when permanent settlements were becoming all the rage. In theory this sound good and well after all the dog is a descendant of the wolf and indeed the two canids (both come from the family Canidae) can interbreed. In fact it is on this basis that some argue that the dog is really a subspecies of the wolf. Although it is instinctive to assume that man did indeed tame the wolf which tamed animals then eventually evolved into the domesticated dog, there is a gaping flaw in this theory! The flaw is that this theory assumes that Mesolithic humans had the time or the intelligence to invest in a selective breeding program that aimed to create a tamer wolf; this would have necessarily meant that those people had hundreds of tame wolves with which to select desired traits from…a notion that is simply preposterous!
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