The Origin of the Dog Revisited

The most widely accepted hypothesis of the origin of the dog, Canis familiaris, is that the dog is a domesticated gray wolf, Canis lupus. This paper reviews the evidence for this conclusion, finds many unanswered questions and conceptual gaps in the wolf origin hypothesis, and explores the alternati...

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Main Author: Janice Koler-matznick
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.529.5548
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