Evolution of Vargr

[AndrewW]

Opinion: We Didn’t Domesticate Dogs. They Domesticated Us.
Scientists argue that friendly wolves sought out humans.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...domestic-evolution-science-wolf-wolves-human/

Most likely, it was wolves that approached us, not the other way around, probably while they were scavenging around garbage dumps on the edge of human settlements. The wolves that were bold but aggressive would have been killed by humans, and so only the ones that were bold and friendly would have been tolerated.

Makes one wonder which the Vargr are descended from...

 

[Reynard]

Modern Homo sapien arrived around 200,000 years ago and domestication of the wolf was about 15,000 years ago. The Ancients harvested wolves and Homo heidelbergensis about 300,000 years ago and took them to separate parts of the local galaxy for different intent. It seems there was no forethought to interact the two species at a future time and human-wolf interaction was pretty much nil during the harvests. It seems it is serendipidy that human and wolf decendents would reunite so far in the future so I doubt wolves friendly to humanoids was a parameter.

It seems the Ancients were more interested in each species' social, mental and physical potentials that could be genetically manipulated to create living tools if not just experimental curiousities.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Vargr are domesticated about as much as humans are. They're not pets (or the PC term: animal companions).