Dr. William Marsh
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The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
So it's actually quite easy to track
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
population movements of humans via dog genomes.
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
They're both sort of quite well correlated.
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
If you see a dog with this ancestry pattern, you're going to see a human with this ancestry pattern.
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
Whereas in the Paleolithic, we don't see that.
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
We see the same dogs across completely different human groups.
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
And it's how that radiation happened.
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
We still are sort of pretty uncertain about it, to be honest.
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
But it appears that dogs have spread due to their utility.
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
Most certainly due to their utility.
The Ancients
Britain's First Dog
We are working on this, let's just say.