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To: PatrickHenry
Domestic dogs are genetically indistinguishable from wolves.

Also, there is no genetic problem with any dog breed interbreeding with another, aside from problems caused by differences in size.

Bottom line is, there has been no "evolution" of dog breeds.

Existing genetic traits have merely been selected for and amplified by dog breeders.

31 posted on 12/21/2004 9:12:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Bottom line is, there has been no "evolution" of dog breeds.

These things take time. We haven't been dealing with dogs for very long. Give it a few thousand more dog generations. Speciation is virtually inevitable.

35 posted on 12/21/2004 9:15:29 AM PST by PatrickHenry (The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Bottom line is, there has been no "evolution" of dog breeds

That's not entirely correct as evolution is simply the change in the frequency of alleles from one generation to the next. Selective breeding of dogs is a prime example of this. If your talking in terms of speciation then you are correct. No speciation has occurred.

36 posted on 12/21/2004 9:15:57 AM PST by GreenFreeper
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