[blam]

I have read previously that it was believed (from DNA evidence) that dogs were domesticated four different times.

[blam]

The American Dingo/Carolina Dog

[tubebender]

The earliest finding of dog remains a jawbone imbedded in the leg of a mailman from Germany which is 14,000 years old.

[PropheticZero]

The earliest finding of dog remains a jawbone from Germany which is 14,000 years old. The Swedish-Chinese research team said DNA analyses, coupled with archaeological finds, pointed to a point of origin about 15,000 years ago.

Should this read...

archaeologicla finds pointed to a point of origin about 15,000 years ago, and since DNA analyses of 600 some odd dogs can't much give you a year date we just went with the excepted date.

Maybe I'm wrong, not exactly my field. Seems wierd though. Do they actually have 15,000 year old asian-wolf DNA to use in their analysis, or are they comparing to asian-wolves now? And what exactly would that tell you other than, hey all these dogs DNA is closer to asian-wolves than it is to american foxes. And how much interbreeding has occured in 15,000 years to change the asian-wolf popultion during that time span.

Again not my field, but this one has the faint hint of scientist trying to drive their results across the country on only a half a tank of facts. Probably to get more research grants to continue providing us with these startling and world-altering results.

[SunkenCiv]

Another neglected one.

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[curmudgeonII]

What's with the almost all in the first line of the report? Which dogs are not?
And, if there are some varieties which are not, how can they [presumably] breed wth other dogs?