Did the jackal (wild African dog) evolve independently or with some form of human domestication?
This answer is just for African golden jackal evolution, but this website (sciencemag.org) explains that...
“...researchers compared genomewide DNA samples from jackals, gray wolves, and dogs. They found that African golden jackals diverged from coyotes and gray wolves some 1.3 million years ago...”.
Also, this Wikipedia article about Canis arnensis (the Arno river dog) (I know that Wikipedia is unreliable but it had related helpful information) explains that...
“The Arno River dog has been described as a small jackal-like dog. Its anatomy and morphology relate it more to the modern golden jackal (Canis aureus) than to the larger Etruscan wolf of that time. It is probably the ancestor of modern jackals.”