New research supports the idea that wolves self-domesticated to eat food scraps from human settlements approximately 30,000 to 15,000 years ago, indicating that domestication could occur naturally without the need for human intervention.

Ancestors of grey wolves were domesticated into dogs.

dogs descended from wolves, changing due to human interaction and natural selection.

Researchers from valparaiso university contributed to the study about wolf domestication.

The study discussing wolf self-domestication was published in this scientific journal.