The Wolf In My House
Around 130,000 years ago Neanderthals first domesticated a Eurasian wolf, which made perfect sense because they were both carnivores. Unlike HomoSapiens Sapiens (modern humans) the Neanderthals exclusively ate meat, and required more than 6,000 calories per day, at least 3 times as much as modern humans. For the next hundred thousand years in Europe, Western Asia and the Middle East, the Neanderthals and their wolves dominated, hunting and eating everything they could. Starting around 30,000 years ago, HomoSapiens Sapiens started to overlap into the territories in Europe and the Middle East dominated by the Neanderthals. Over the next 10,000 years, we killed the Neandertals, interbred with them, and took their dogs, which descended to become all large dogs without curly tails, and by around 20,000 years ago Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record. The Eurasian wolf that was domesticated by the Neanderthals no longer exists in nature, becau...