From: altamira (altamira@ecpi.com)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 18:22:16 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
>
> CYMM SAYS: Dogs are really nothing more than
> wolves. Their domestication from canis lupus might even predate
> homo sapiens
> sapiens; and it kept continuing into historic times.
>
> This, i suppose because of the neat strategic fit beween dog society &
> human.
>
> So, resident in the dog populations of the world are genes from
> long extinct
> wolf genepools.
I'm sure you're right about this, CYMM, just as teosinte and domesticated
corn share many genes and can cross-breed. But I don't think you'd want to
try to have teosinte as a dietary staple, and dogs are not the same as
wolves.
Bonnie
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