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How the Dog Became the Dog : From Wolves to Our Best Friends by Mark Derr is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is How the Dog Became the Dog : From Wolves to Our Best Friends about?

**That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend.** __How the Dog Became the Dog__ posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail they recognized themselves in each other. Both are highly social, accomplished generalists, and creatures of habit capable of adapting? homebodies who like to wander.__How the Dog Became the Dog__ presents domestication of the dog as a biological and cultural process that began in mutual cooperation and has taken a number of radical turns. At the end of the last Ice Age the first dogs emerged with their humans from refuges against the cold. In the eighteenth century, humans began the drive to exercise full control of dog reproduction, life, and death to complete the domestication of the wolf begun so long ago.

Who reads How the Dog Became the Dog : From Wolves to Our Best Friends?

Author

Mark Derr

Publisher

The Overlook Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781468302691

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Pets, Nature

Rating

3.03 / 5 (207 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14