About the book: 2014 / Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods suggest A whole new understanding of dog intelligence and the inner world of our smartest pets. We have learned more about canine intelligence in the last 10 years than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered by Brian Hare, have proven that dogs have a kind of ability to communicate with people that is completely unique in the animal kingdom. Brian Hare's stunning discovery is how dogs domesticated themselves more than 40,000 years ago. They became much more like human babies than their wolf ancestors. Domestication gave dogs a whole new kind of intelligence. This discovery changes the way we think about dogs and their training..