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Dogs first tamed to be food

Wolves were domesticated no more than 16,300 years ago in southern China, a new genetic analysis suggests—and it's possible the canines were tamed to be livestock, not pets, the study author speculates. “In this region, even today, eating dog is a big cultural thing,” noted study co-author Peter Savolainen, a biologist at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. “And you can also see in the historical records as far back as you can go that eating dogs has been very common” in East Asia

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Is your baby racist?

Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color. What's a parent to do? At the Children's Research Lab at the University of Texas, a database is kept on thousands of families in the Austin area who have volunteered to be available for scholarly research.

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Is your baby racist?