Perhaps for this reason, dogs —formerly gray wolves—are our oldest and best non-human friend. Of course, this friendship has had its ups and downs, which is why we, talkative primates, use the concept-word 'dog' in many languages to insult and denigrate our fellow human beings. It's ...
wolves and thereby turned them into dogs, fine-tuning the initial social match even more. Why humans can be social with other animals at all may be explained via a common “social toolbox”—a social brain and physiology—shared between humans and other animals because of both a common ...