Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways

The New York Times (Science Times) ^ | August 19, 2003 | NICHOLAS WADE

[ktan87]

this is science. where are these suppositions?

[3Lean]

Dogs are the result of selective breeding. Dogs and wolves freely interbreed even after many, many years of isolation and man’s best attempts to shape them into vastly different types of animals. I think you chose a very bad example.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Buttons12]

Relative hairlessness of females might be due to hormones, or a selection preference for youthful looking females (neoteny) who are more successful breeders on average.