Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and EvolutionUniversity of Chicago Press, 2002 - 352 էջ Biologists, breeders and trainers, and champion sled dog racers, Raymond and Lorna Coppinger have more than four decades of experience with literally thousands of dogs. Offering a scientifically informed perspective on canines and their relations with humans, the Coppingers take a close look at eight different types of dogs—household, village, livestock guarding, herding, sled-pulling, pointing, retrieving, and hound. They argue that dogs did not evolve directly from wolves, nor were they trained by early humans; instead they domesticated themselves to exploit a new ecological niche: Mesolithic village dumps. Tracing the evolution of today's breeds from these village dogs, the Coppingers show how characteristic shapes and behaviors—from pointing and baying to the sleek shapes of running dogs—arise from both genetic heritage and the environments in which pups are raised. For both dogs and humans to get the most out of each other, we need to understand and adapt to the biological needs and dispositions of our canine companions, just as they have to ours. |
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... lives . Pet owners , who constantly confront us with the need to think harder about how dogs intersect with people . Also , a few sled dog drivers would insist they taught us everything we know about dogs , and in the case of Charlie ...
... lives . Pet owners , who constantly confront us with the need to think harder about how dogs intersect with people . Also , a few sled dog drivers would insist they taught us everything we know about dogs , and in the case of Charlie ...
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... lives : a feisty little Pembroke Welsh corgi for Karyn , and a dozen Chesapeake Bay retrievers for Tim , who raised and trained them for hunting trials and field work . The change toward a professional relationship with dogs came while ...
... lives : a feisty little Pembroke Welsh corgi for Karyn , and a dozen Chesapeake Bay retrievers for Tim , who raised and trained them for hunting trials and field work . The change toward a professional relationship with dogs came while ...
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... lives , their secret lives , and their love lives . They delve into the dog's domain and try to explain their behaviors . There are good books on dog training , and we know some super dog trainers . Both provide tech- niques for ...
... lives , their secret lives , and their love lives . They delve into the dog's domain and try to explain their behaviors . There are good books on dog training , and we know some super dog trainers . Both provide tech- niques for ...
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... live abundantly , but in much more limited areas and in much fewer numbers . A ball- park estimate of the relative numbers in the world shows this discrep- ancy . ( See the table on page 22. ) Four hundred million dogs in the world ...
... live abundantly , but in much more limited areas and in much fewer numbers . A ball- park estimate of the relative numbers in the world shows this discrep- ancy . ( See the table on page 22. ) Four hundred million dogs in the world ...
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... live in Canada . But there are on the order of one hundred million dogs in North America ( United States , Mexico , and Canada ) . That is two thousand times as many dogs as wolves . In the United States , our colleagues estimate fifty ...
... live in Canada . But there are on the order of one hundred million dogs in North America ( United States , Mexico , and Canada ) . That is two thousand times as many dogs as wolves . In the United States , our colleagues estimate fifty ...
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE BASIC DOG COMMENSALISM | 35 |
Wolves Evolve into Dogs | 37 |
THE PINOCCHIO HYPOTHESIS OF DOG ORIGIN | 39 |
TAMING THE WOLF | 40 |
TRAINING THE WOLF | 45 |
DOMESTICATING THE WOLF | 47 |
SPECIATION REQUIRES POPULATIONS THAT EVOLVENOT INDIVIDUALS | 48 |
SPECIATION REQUIRES DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY | 50 |
THE VALUE OF THE BREED STANDARD | 185 |
Behavioral Conformation | 187 |
THE BORDER COLLIES BEHAVIORAL CONFORMATION | 209 |
MOTOR PATTERNS | 215 |
ARE PEOPLE THE DOGS BEST FRIEND? PARASITISM AMENSALISM AND DULOSIS | 223 |
Household Dogs | 225 |
MEASURING THE BENEFIT TO HUMANS OF THE HOUSEHOLD DOG | 235 |
Assistance Dogs | 251 |
Village Dogs | 67 |
THE MESOLITHIC ISLAND | 70 |
Natural Breeds | 83 |
PEOPLE BECOME CONSCIOUS OF DOGS | 87 |
WORKING DOGS AND PEOPLE MUTUALISM | 95 |
Developmental Environments | 99 |
DISTRIBUTING AND MIXING GENES | 117 |
EVOLVING THE SIZE AND SHAPE | 128 |
SELECTING FOR COLOR | 134 |
WALKING HOUNDS | 138 |
The Physical Conformation of a Breed | 155 |
THE SHAPE OF THE TEAM | 174 |
RUNNING IS SOCIAL BEHAVIOR | 179 |
THE SOCIETY OF A SLED DOG TEAM | 183 |
THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG | 269 |
Whats in the Name Canis familiaris? | 271 |
The Age of the Dog | 281 |
Why Dogs Look the Way They Do | 293 |
HOW TO CHANGE SIZE | 297 |
HOW TO CHANGE SHAPE | 300 |
THE SHAPE OF INTELLIGENCE | 305 |
RAPID EVOLUTION OF BREEDS | 306 |
NEOTENY PAEDOMORPHISM AND THE EVOLUTION OF DOGS FROM WOLVES | 309 |
Conclusion | 315 |
Bibliography | 325 |
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