The current consensus among biologists and archaeologists is that no one can be sure when dogs were domesticated.^[3][17] There is conclusive evidence that dogs genetically diverged from their wolf ancestors at least 15,000 years ago^[18][19][20] but some believe domestication to have occurred earlier.^[3] It is not known whether humans domesticated the gray wolf as such to initiate dog's divergence from its ancestors, or whether dog's evolutionary path took a different course already prior to