Research on the Evolution of Dogs

[BillT]

Here is a summary of the current status of and disputes in the research on the evolutionary origin of dogs.

http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/04/feature-solving-mystery-dog-domestication?utm_campaign=email-news-weekly&utm_src=email

[LizStreithorst]

I read it, but didn't get much out of it.  I guess I don't care how they evolved.  I know that they are easy to manipulate genetically.  We have everything from tiny to huge with all sorts of temperaments.  The big ones are more gentle as a whole because they were bred to be that way out of necessity because big ones can kill a human.  We have dogs for meat, bred as sight hounds, nose hounds, dogs that point at birds. dogs that retrieve, dogs that hunt rodents, big gentle white dogs that protect livestock, and lap dogs.  It's amazing when you consider that they're all canines and go back to a common ancestor.

[wsantia1]

All I know is "I Love Dogs".

[PaulineMi]

All I know is "I Love Dogs".

Me too. 

[LizStreithorst]

Me three.   

[Mugwump]

..us two.....and cats, and fish, and birds, and....oh heck....all of em 

[BallAquatics]

I found it super interesting, Thanks Bill!  I think the cooperation through-out time between homo sapiens and Canis lupus familiaris is also fascinating reading.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/evolution/9269523/Dogs-helped-man-out-compete-with-Neanderthals.html

Dennis