Read the following implied thesis statement:

Dogs make better pets than cats because humans and dogs have had more time to adapt to one another.

Which choice below is the most effective supporting topic sentence for a paragraph in this essay?


Cats started hanging around people because farming attracted mice; dogs liked us for our garbage dumps.


DNA studies show that domesticated cats interbreed with their wild relatives more frequently than dogs do.


Dogs, like humans, are social animals that prefer to live in organized groups.


Dogs were domesticated
years before cats.

1 answer

Dogs were domesticated 15,000 years before cats.