Which breeds of domesticated dogs, if any, are directly related to or descendants of wolves?
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Since there is no one type of wolf, there is no one dog that can be linked back to that wolf. The evolution of the dog took place over so much time and so many continents that even the wolves they started from cross bred. However at some point dogs did become seperate from wolves, they began following tribes of nomadic people and their strains stabilized. Every continent on earth has an original dog. In the Middle East it's called the Canaan dog, in the America's it's called a Carolina dog and in the Polynesian Islands and New Guinea it's called the Singing dog. It is even thought that the Dingo is the original dog of Australia. While they come in a very of colors and heights, they all bare a strong resemblance to one another. In Palestine breeders will seek out Bedouin tribes in order to search through their semi wild pack for traits exhibited by the original dog in hopes of breeding it with their own original dog; this is in hopes of keeping the lines very pure. PBS had a very good show on this topic about 5 months ago.
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All of them. About 12,000 years ago hunter-gatherers in what is now Israel placed a body in a grave with its hand cradling a pup. Whether it was a dog or a wolf can’t be known. Either way, the burial is among the earliest fossil evidence of the dog’s domestication. Scientists know the process was under way by about 14,000 years ago but do not agree on why. Some argue that humans adopted wolf pups and that natural selection favored those less aggressive and better at begging for food. Others say dogs domesticated themselves by adapting to a new niche—human refuse dumps. Scavenging canids that were less likely to flee from people survived in this niche, and succeeding generations became increasingly tame. According to biologist Raymond Coppinger: “All that was selected for was that one trait—the ability to eat in proximity to people.” At the molecular level not much changed at all: The DNA makeup of wolves and dogs is almost identical. http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2002/01/01/html/ft_20020101.1.html
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Border collies are descendants.
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A little wolf in every dog! Fossil and genetic evidence confirms that all dogs are descendants of wolves. Wolves followed nomadic hunter-gatherers, scavenging the refuse of human encampments or hunting locations. Some prehistoric peoples took advantage of this close contact, adopting wild animals into their settlements for companionship and protection. The process of domestication thus began as people favored specific wolf personalities. Sturdiness, demeanor, and submissiveness were key traits. Later, fully domesticated dogs were bred for every aspect of human life. http://www.sdnhm.org/exhibits/dogs/facts.html also see: http://www.nhm.org/exhibitions/dogs/evolution/evolution.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/5/l_015_02.html
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I always think Huskies are very wolf like.
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I always think Huskies are very wolf like.
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Modern breeds of domestic dog share DNA with their far removed family members...wolves. However, from a behavioral and psychological perspective most behaviorist will agree that there is very little relative between the two species of Canid. We have been breeding dogs for 10,000 to perhaps as much as 35,000 year ago. The oldest domestic dog remains found in the USA, in Idaho, came from 8300BC. Only by directly observing Wolves and Coyotes have we recently learned just how much NOT LIKE our domestic dogs these "relatives" really are. Behaviors we encounter in modern dog that are similar, are herding, prey drive...to some moderate degree...lets face it modern dog doesn't generally need to hunt for food! Protecting territory. Ability to learn and be flexible to what the surrounding environment has to offer. In the past five years, research has taken us to a place where behaviors by our domestic dogs that we would at one time have casually announced as being "wolf-like" are in truth NOT "wolf-like" even a little bit! It makes for interesting research!
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Alaskan malamute,Siberian Husky[they are descendants of arctic wolf].Czchechoslovakian wolf dog..which is mix of german shepherd and grey karpatian wolf..
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