where did dogs originate?
Mar 4, 2020 23:15:44 #
Mar 5, 2020 13:38:05 #
selena18 wrote:
Taking evidence from the prehistoric wolf bone, experts agree that dogs separated from wolves, evolutionary speaking closer to 30,000 years earlier. While this doesn't mean that we began domesticating dogs that way back, it does seem to elucidate why Wolves went from competing with humans to be interested in them.
I wonder if that 30,000 years will stir up the young earth bible believers?
Apr 25, 2020 13:59:16 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
Evolution
neat trick getting 30,000 years on a 6,000 year old earth.
Apr 25, 2020 14:14:59 #
The Russian experiment I am aware of was done on a ranch that raised foxes for their fur.
With the each generation, they simply separated them into three groups: most vicious, 'average". and least vicious. Within a number of generations, the least vicious group was indistinguishable from dogs {and the most vicious group was really vicious}.
I believe that dogs were raised using similar methods - originally the breeders chose the friendliest ones. In later generations they chose for other traits, such as smallest. I have also heard that domesticated black cats were chosen for orange-tinged eyes {I discovered that theory while doing an Internet search to see why our black cat has noticeably orangish eyes.
With the each generation, they simply separated them into three groups: most vicious, 'average". and least vicious. Within a number of generations, the least vicious group was indistinguishable from dogs {and the most vicious group was really vicious}.
I believe that dogs were raised using similar methods - originally the breeders chose the friendliest ones. In later generations they chose for other traits, such as smallest. I have also heard that domesticated black cats were chosen for orange-tinged eyes {I discovered that theory while doing an Internet search to see why our black cat has noticeably orangish eyes.
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