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You are right but it's the other way around. Being cute brings about domestication in an animal. Dogs are just more common because they were wolves 15000 years

by kang 10y ago

You are right but it's the other way around. Being cute brings about domestication in an animal. Dogs are just more common because they were wolves 15000 years ago and stuck around groups of human hunters for leftover hunt. In return they acted as protection since others animals didn't come close, whereas humans were able to control them with fire. So humans domesticated the cute ones.

kevlened 10y ago
Strangely, domestication can bring about cuteness. Radiolab did a story on the domestication of the silver fox [0]. They discuss how domestication yielded physical changes. "Through generations of selectively breeding a captive population, Belyaev noticed not only increased docility, but also unexpected physical changes." [0] - http://www.radiolab.org/story/91696-new-nice/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/91696-new-nice/
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