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...What’s novel about this study was that we were trying to figure out why this was,” Hare said. “The punch line is that during domestication, there has been cognitive evolution...
According to Hare, who works in the biological anthropology department, this study is the first experimental demonstration of its kind...
...study published in last week’s issue of Science, fifth-year graduate student Brian A. Hare and Michelle Brown ’01 explored why dogs are so much better than other animals at understanding human hand and facial cues—better even than our own ancestors, chimpanzees...
Finally, there's the question of what makes people and dogs such inseparable friends. Using a number of behavioral experiments--most of them involving finding food hidden in scent-camouflaged boxes--a team headed by anthropologist Brian Hare of Harvard compared the ability of wolves, adult dogs and puppies to pick up subtle cues in human behavior. Both puppies and dogs showed a talent for finding the food using nonverbal signals from the researchers--even something as subtle as gazing toward the hiding place. That doesn't surprise Nicholas Dodman, director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at Tufts University School...
...mysteries are settled, of course, and Hare and other behaviorists are trying to devise tests to peer yet deeper into canine cognition. The geneticists too are sharpening their tools, looking to more powerful gene probes--eventually even the complete sequences of the dog genome. Dog lovers, meanwhile, don't much care how the transition happened--just as long as it did. --Reported by Deirdre...