Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dog brain communication networks differ with selective breeding and training, revealing how dogs became so responsive to people.

Dog breeding is a huge, lucrative international enterprise, and there are clear problems in breeders’ efforts to produce dogs who suffer from any number of physical and emotional maladies to satisfy ...

・Selective breeding appears to have broadly reshaped the brain networks dogs use to process human voices, words and other communication. ・Intensive service-dog training produced more focused changes ...