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Who tamed whom: a man a dog or a man's dog?
Some biologists believe that it was not a man that tamed a dog, but that it tamed itself or even tamed a person.
According to these experts, the ancestors of the dog were wolves, for some reason rejected by the pack and moved to human habitation, where they could feed on garbage. Those who wanted to survive had to learn not only not to attack people, but also to please them, win their trust, and then sympathy. The wolf, having learned to communicate with people, turned into a dog.
From this point of view, the following circumstance is also interesting. Until recently, it was believed that the dog was tamed by humans about 10-15 thousand years ago, but a comparison of the DNA of a dog and a wolf showed that the dog separated from the genealogical line of its wild ancestor about 135 thousand years ago. Around the same time, the first humans appeared.
It turns out that man's best friend is also his age.
Author: Kondrashov A.P.
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What is the order of the planets in the solar system?
In order of distance from the Sun, the center of our solar system, the planets are arranged as follows: Mercury, Venus, Earth with a single satellite Moon, Mars with two satellites (Deimos and Phobos), Jupiter with sixteen satellites, Saturn with seventeen satellites, Uranus - with sixteen satellites, Neptune - with eight satellites, Pluto - with one satellite.
The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer it takes to complete one orbit around it. Mercury quickly flies around the Sun, and the most distant planet Pluto makes one revolution around the Sun in 250 Earth years. A year on Pluto is 250 times longer than an Earth year. On the planets, due to their rotation around their axes, there is a change of day and night. The change of seasons occurs due to the fact that the planets revolve around the Sun, as if leaning on their side. Because of this, one part of the planet is better illuminated, then another.
In addition to the planets, a huge swarm of not so large cosmic bodies - asteroids - moves around the Sun. They are located mainly between Mars and Jupiter. There are also many comets circling the Sun.
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