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The lecture demonstrates several points opposed to the theory presented in the reading passage regarding the domestication of dogs.
First of all, the lecturer points out that the supposition, that the ancient humans would have adopted the wolf pups to train them as their hunting collaborators, lacks authenticity, since the humans and the wolves had different hunting styles. Furthermore, he also remarks the fact that the wolf is a dangerous predator which is too difficult to control.
Besides, he estimates that the domestication would have happened way earlier than indicated in the reading passage, invoking the discovery in a French cave of early dog bones which have been dated to 26,000 years ago. This denies the argument that the domestication occured 16,000 years ago as states the reading passage.
Finally, the lecture refutes the idea that the assimilation of dogs to human communities would have been derived from a single place, southern China according to the text, showing that the domestication took place simultaneously in different regions around the world, like in Europe, Middle East, and America.
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