The Brilliant Co-Creation between Man and God: Dogs
How humans and dogs evolved to help each other
Relative to the age of the planet, dogs are new additions on Earth. Charles Darwin initially believed dogs were part of the genus Canis, which includes a variety of wolf-like animals (wolves, jackals, coyotes). New DNA information from archaeological digs, however, points to just one progenitor of dogs: the gray wolf.
The oldest remnant of dog DNA goes back to a Belgian cave a mere 31,700 years ago. In his groundbreaking book Sapiens, historian Yuval Noah Harari describes the “cognitive revolution” Homo sapiens experienced about 70,000 years ago, after assimilating to (or being replaced by) other hominin tribes like Neanderthals and Denisovans. During this period, early humans developed abstract thinking and reasoning abilities that radically altered their interactions with themselves and the world.
Pridefully enough, we later named ourselves “the wise ones” (“sapiens”).
Children of the wolf mother
If we look back at history, it appears God created the wolf but man made the dog.
