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Book review: 'How the Dog Became the Dog': Mark Derr seeks to get at the existential mystery of that ancient link between people and dogs. (Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times)

["H]ow the Dog Became the Dog" takes aim at a variety of scientific questions such as whether the evolution of the dog from the wolf occurred 135,000 years ago or maybe as recently as 12,000 years ago (depending on the theory and proofs). For this reviewer, the most compelling takeaway point remains how little we truly understand about the reasons why I share my house with a domesticated descendant of a wolf and not, say, a raccoon or a miniature deer.

Because we chose to evolve the wolf.

Posted by oj at December 10, 2011 5:04 AM
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