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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... Wolves Evolve into Dogs The Pinocchio Hypothesis of Dog Origin Taming the Wolf Training the Wolf Domesticating the Wolf Speciation Requires Populations That Evolve - Not Individuals Speciation Requires Differential Mortality Chapter 2 ...
... Wolves Evolve into Dogs The Pinocchio Hypothesis of Dog Origin Taming the Wolf Training the Wolf Domesticating the Wolf Speciation Requires Populations That Evolve - Not Individuals Speciation Requires Differential Mortality Chapter 2 ...
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... wolf , and exist today as domestic dogs in hugely significant numbers . Dogs as a species are most likely less than fifteen thousand years old , which is a barest instant of evolutionary time.2 Wolves as a species are maybe five million ...
... wolf , and exist today as domestic dogs in hugely significant numbers . Dogs as a species are most likely less than fifteen thousand years old , which is a barest instant of evolutionary time.2 Wolves as a species are maybe five million ...
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... wolves are now occupied by dogs , living in changed habi- tats . Dogs now have a greater distribution worldwide than the wolf ever did . Biological success can be quantified . We can measure the success of dogs by counting them , or by ...
... wolves are now occupied by dogs , living in changed habi- tats . Dogs now have a greater distribution worldwide than the wolf ever did . Biological success can be quantified . We can measure the success of dogs by counting them , or by ...
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... wolf has a basic predator shape . It is not a specialist , but rather a generalist . In compari- son with other ... wolf's is decreasing . Dogs have shapes and behaviors unheard of in the wolf . Unlike the wolf — if we have seen one wolf ...
... wolf has a basic predator shape . It is not a specialist , but rather a generalist . In compari- son with other ... wolf's is decreasing . Dogs have shapes and behaviors unheard of in the wolf . Unlike the wolf — if we have seen one wolf ...
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... wolf . Compared with wolves , sled dogs can run farther , greyhounds can run faster , bloodhounds have a better sense of smell , borzois have more optical overlap and better depth per- ception . Some would contend that , cognitively ...
... wolf . Compared with wolves , sled dogs can run farther , greyhounds can run faster , bloodhounds have a better sense of smell , borzois have more optical overlap and better depth per- ception . Some would contend that , cognitively ...
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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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