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How the Dog Became the Dog
Mark Derr
From Wolves to Our Best Friends [
Overlook Hardcover
November 2011
On Sale: October 27, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 1590207009
EAN: 9781590207000
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Non-Fiction Pet-Lover
That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of
evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became
dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How
the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary
inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. The natural temperament and social structure of humans and
wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail
they recognized themselves in each other. Both are highly
social, accomplished generalists, and creatures of habit
capable of adapting? homebodies who like to wander. How the Dog Became the Dog presents domestication of the dog
as a biological and cultural process that began in mutual
cooperation and has taken a number of radical turns. At the
end of the last Ice Age the first dogs emerged with their
humans from refuges against the cold. In the eighteenth
century, humans began the drive to exercise full control of
dog reproduction, life, and death to complete the
domestication of the wolf begun so long ago.
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