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Nature Episode 25.11 Dogs That Changed The World: The Rise of the Dog
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Nature Episode 25.11 Dogs That Changed The World: The Rise of the Dog

Episode Premiere
April 22, 2007
Genre
Documentary
Production Company
Thirteen
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/
Episode Premiere
April 22, 2007
Genre
Documentary
Period
1982 -
Production Co
Thirteen
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/
Additional Cast
  • F. Murray Abraham

Exploring how the domestication of dogs might have taken place, including the theory of biologist Raymond Coppinger that it was the animals themselves — and human trash — that inspired the transformation. The genetic analysis of Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has placed the origins of domesticated dogs — and those of the first dog — in East Asia.