Wolf populations were genetically connected ... populations of ancient wolves that roamed Asia and the Middle East during the last Ice Age. The study considers genomes of 71 ancient wolves from ...

The dogs were most similar to gray wolves in Siberia about 13,000 to 23,000 years ago — during the last ice age. "That's consistent with a wolf population ... dogs in the Middle East, Africa ...

Dogs are known to have originated from the gray wolf, with this domestication occurring during the Ice Age, at least 15,000 ... But early dogs from the Middle East, Africa and southern Europe ...

But others seem to have also received significant input from a Middle East population ... just before the last peak of the ice age. But when every wolf older than that point was tested for ...