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“We had a civilization without horses and even a civilization without a wheel, but there was never a civilization without dogs. There is no dog - there is no man. These words of Pierrot Scansjani from his book "Il Cane Utile" ("useful dog"), published in the Roman publishing house "Pan", make a deepest impression: after all, if you really think about them, this is not a loud phrase, not a paradox, but a pure phrase True, confirmed by science. If we assume that the statement “There is no dog - there is no person "erroneous, then we must ask why always and everywhere, at all times and in all cultures next to a person there was a dog - and not only the last 14-15 thousand years, as it was believed Until recently, and almost 100 thousand years, according to the latest data obtained as a result of the study of the mitochondrial DNA of our four -legged friends. If throughout his evolution a person shared his life with this animal, then there were reasons for this. And these reasons, without doubt, lie in the dog’s extraordinary ability to establish such close relationships with a person that they have become a prerequisite for his survival. Primitive people made this discovery when they realized that they could sleep more calmly if their caves or parking are guarded by dogs, and it is better to eat if they hunt with dogs