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Domestication of a wolf is a lot more difficult to pin down than domestication of animals like llamas, cows, etc. A domesticated dog was not necessarily penned up or kept from breeding with other non-domesticated animals. I believe that canids and Homo sapiens have been buddies for a lot longer than any “domestication”. Canids have many different benefits for humans and even wild canids can be and are friendly and loyal under the right circumstances. As far as DNA testing, that’s a difficult one. My friend works with DNA sequencing and she’s expressed many issues with “common ancestor” sequencing and stuff. I don’t know enough about the techniques to critique them, but I know they’re not 100% accurate. Morphologically the skull appears much more wolf like than domesticated. Mostly when looking at the teeth. Almost all domesticated dogs have huge gaps between canines and premolars. Wolves generally have the area very filled in (like is seen in this specimen). But that again doesn’t mean the specimen wasn’t domesticated. It just means it wasn’t necessarily being bred by humans for long enough for skeletal changes to have occurred.
Domestication of a wolf is a lot more difficult to pin down than domestication of animals like llamas, cows, etc. A domesticated dog was not necessarily penned up or kept from breeding with other non-domesticated animals. I believe that canids and Homo sapiens have been buddies for a lot longer than any “domestication”. Canids have many different benefits for humans and even wild canids can be and are friendly and loyal under the right circumstances. As far as DNA testing, that’s a difficult one. My friend works with DNA sequencing and she’s expressed many issues with “common ancestor” sequencing and stuff. I don’t know enough about the techniques to critique them, but I know they’re not 100% accurate. Morphologically the skull appears much more wolf like than domesticated. Mostly when looking at the teeth. Almost all domesticated dogs have huge gaps between canines and premolars. Wolves generally have the area very filled in (like is seen in this specimen). But that again doesn’t mean the specimen wasn’t domesticated. It just means it wasn’t necessarily being bred by humans for long enough for skeletal changes to have occurred.
Domestication of a wolf is a lot more difficult to pin down than domestication of animals like llamas, cows, etc. A domesticated dog was not necessarily penned up or kept from breeding with other non-domesticated animals. I believe that canids and Homo sapiens have been buddies for a lot longer than any “domestication”. Canids have many different benefits for humans and even wild canids can be and are friendly and loyal under the right circumstances. As far as DNA testing, that’s a difficult one. My friend works with DNA sequencing and she’s expressed many issues with “common ancestor” sequencing and stuff. I don’t know enough about the techniques to critique them, but I know they’re not 100% accurate. Morphologically the skull appears much more wolf like than domesticated. Mostly when looking at the teeth. Almost all domesticated dogs have huge gaps between canines and premolars. Wolves generally have the area very filled in (like is seen in this specimen). But that again doesn’t mean the specimen wasn’t domesticated. It just means it wasn’t necessarily being bred by humans for long enough for skeletal changes to have occurred.
]]>Domestication of a wolf is a lot more difficult to pin down than domestication of animals like llamas, cows, etc. A domesticated dog was not necessarily penned up or kept from breeding with other non-domesticated animals. I believe that canids and Homo sapiens have been buddies for a lot longer than any “domestication”. Canids have many different benefits for humans and even wild canids can be and are friendly and loyal under the right circumstances. As far as DNA testing, that’s a difficult one. My friend works with DNA sequencing and she’s expressed many issues with “common ancestor” sequencing and stuff. I don’t know enough about the techniques to critique them, but I know they’re not 100% accurate. Morphologically the skull appears much more wolf like than domesticated. Mostly when looking at the teeth. Almost all domesticated dogs have huge gaps between canines and premolars. Wolves generally have the area very filled in (like is seen in this specimen). But that again doesn’t mean the specimen wasn’t domesticated. It just means it wasn’t necessarily being bred by humans for long enough for skeletal changes to have occurred.
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