### ch01p25 we don’t know whether humans or wolves drove domestication > What we don’t really know is who chose whom. Our instinct may be to assume that our own human ancestors chose wolves and deliberately moulded them into dogs over generatoins. In reality, conscious intent may have had very little to do with the transformation of certain wolves into domesticated species. It may have started as a gentle form of symbiosis, a loose partnership based on mutual benefit. Perhaps it was even the wolves that drove the process. By hanging around humans more and more, even if just picking over middens for scraps of food, wolves may have unconsciously trained humans into accepting them – first as neighbors, then as companions. This reminds me of the [[A Storytelling of Ravens by Betty Wheelwright]]. #xref - [[Tamed by Alice Roberts#ch01p25 we don’t know whether humans or wolves drove domestication|View in Vault]]