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Historically speaking, DOGS are significantly older than CATS when it comes to their relationship with humans, though their ancient evolutionary families are roughly the same age.

The answer changes depending on whether you look at human history (domestication) or natural history (evolution):

1. Domestication (Human History): Dogs wins by a wide margin

Dogs hold the title of humanity’s very first domesticated animal. They partnered with us thousands of years before the invention of agriculture, while humans were still nomadic hunter-gatherers.

• DOGS (approximately 15,000 to 30,000+ years ago): Modern dogs descended from an extinct lineage of gray wolves. Archaeologists have uncovered dog remains buried alongside humans dating back at least 14,000 to 15,000 years, with genetic tracking suggesting the partnership began even earlier.

• CATS (approximately 10,000 years ago): Cats were domesticated much later during the Neolithic agricultural revolution. As humans settled down and began storing grain, mice flourished. Wild African cats moved into these villages to hunt the rodents, essentially domesticating themselves to live alongside us. The earliest physical evidence of a human-cat bond is a 9,500-year-old burial found on the island of Cyprus.

2. Evolution (Natural History): It’s a relative tie.

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