Comments on: Book review – The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved

By: Book review – The Process of Animal Domestication | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 May 2022 11:30:02 +0000

[…] book on behavioural genetics. The bulk of the research covered here is on mammals (dogs feature prominently) and birds, with fish and insects getting two brief chapters at the end of the […]

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By: Book review – The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man’s Best Friend | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:43:21 +0000

[…] Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past). In my review of The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved, I wondered what analyses of ancient DNA would reveal about the domestication of dogs from wolves. […]

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By: Book review – The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:26:12 +0000

[…] also shown by my review of The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved, we ignore traditional knowledge at our own peril. I maintain that healthy scepticism when […]

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inquisitivebiologist — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:53:58 +0000

Some interesting work on ancient dog DNA is already revealing extinct lineages:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-original-american-dogs-are-gonewith-one-sinister-exception/564455/

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By: Book review – Unnatural Selection | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – Unnatural Selection | The Inquisitive Biologist — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 08:35:24 +0000

[…] Other concepts covered include mutations, the occurrence of comparable mutations in radically different organisms, different facets of selection working together or opposing each other and imposing limitations on how far animals can evolve in certain directions, and the effects of reproductive isolation, whether its island populations in the wild, or strict breeding programmes for official breeds. Finally, she deals with the process of domestication itself. This chapter predominantly talks about dogs and wolves, touching on the work on foxes described in How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution, reviewed here. Van Grouw favours the model put forward by the Coppinger’s of wolves living off scrap heaps and being tamed by humans (see Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution and Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World), although she acknowledges that others favour the idea of wolves and humans co-evolving, with wolf cubs being taken in and hand-reared (see The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved). […]

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