Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia
As the first domestic species, dogs likely dispersed with different cultural groups during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed 73 ancient dog genomes, including 17 newly sequenced individuals sampled from East Asia to the West Eurasian Steppe spanning nearly 10,000 years. Our results indicate correlations between the ancestry of dogs and specific ancient human populations from eastern Europe to Eastern Siberia, including Ancient Paleo-Siberians, Eastern hunter-gatherers, East Asians, and Steppe pastoralists. We also identify multiple shifts in the ancestry of dogs that coincide with specific dispersals of hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists. Combined, our results reveal the long-term and integral role that dogs played in a multitude of human societies.
Authors
- Tatiana R. Feuerborn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1610-3402)
- Mikkel‐Holger S. Sinding (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1371-219X)
- Jiajia Dong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9908-2699)
- А. Д. Степанов (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2178-4919)
- Kristina Tabbada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8728-8291)
- Minmin Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5054-5733)
- Greger Larson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4092-0392)
- Lachie Scarsbrook (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2558-4455)
- Sophy Charlton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-2635)
- Lele Ren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7796-9600)
- Guanghui Dong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8005-759X)
- Laurent Frantz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-3885)
- Olaf Thalmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1700-0130)
- Renato Sala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0845-3672)
- Г. Г. Боескоров (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2360-7740)
- Qiurong Ruan
- Anders J. Hansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1890-2702)
- Elaine A. Ostrander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-9738)
- Erika Rosengren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-2134)
- Evangelos A. Dimopoulos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8508-704X)
- Xin Jia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4690-0621)
- Linyao Du (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0176-8647)
- Guoke Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9957-6012)
- Anna Linderholm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1613-9926)
- Menghan Qiu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2891-4712)
- Alexander M. Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5894-8062)
- Germán Hernández‐Alonso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6065-1428)
- Alan K. Outram (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-089X)
- J. H. Yin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1479-9349)
- Виктор Васильевич Варфоломеев (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3598-2345)
- Jean-Marc Deom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-5974)
- Keith Dobney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9036-4681)
- Alberto Carmagnini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5215-4269)
- Lu Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0073-0666)
- Shan Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9860-2648)
- Rui Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7210-8358)
- Guodong Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-4363)
- Sun Yong-gang
- Shaojie Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1079-9680)
- Yishi Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3367-8606)
- Wang Qian-qian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2892-0939)
- Wenyu Wei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4050-3521)
- Alex Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5764-7513)
- Guimei Li
- Haochen Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4475-0984)
- Zhixiong Zhang
- Viktor Zaibert
Institutions
- Uppsala University (SE)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Harvard University (US)
- Kunming Institute of Botany (CN)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Nanjing Normal University (CN)
- Stockholm University (SE)
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- Kunming Institute of Zoology (CN)
- Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KZ)
- Lund University (SE)
- Yunnan University (CN)
- Chifeng University (CN)
- University of Aberdeen (GB)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Karaganda Buketov University (KZ)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Zhaotong University (CN)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (US)
- National Historical Museums (SE)
- Diamond and Precious Metal Geology Institute (RU)
- Grønlands Naturinstitut (GL)
- Oxford Archaeology (GB)
- Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology (CN)
- Centre for Palaeogenetics (SE)
- Institute of Archeology and Ethnography (TM)
- Institute of Earth Environment (CN)
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (RU)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- University of York (GB)
- Lanzhou University (CN)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Science
- Published
- 2025-11-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu2836
- Citations
- 11
- Primary Topic
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 19.99