much approval given
with an additional pedantic note... that all those who think that dogs evolved from wolves be forced to understand that they co-evolved alongside wolves and that they are not a subset of wolves. This is a subtle distinction but one which is the correct view see Coppinger etc...
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Sun 25 Sep 2011, 19:19, 2 replies)

Correct
It is actually quite possible to keep a pet wolf should you wish. The instinctive development of the strains was similar but the strains are entirely separate.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 25 Sep 2011, 19:47, closed)

i read about a book recently which argued that we'd got the wolf/dog thing wrong.
The vast majority of domestic dogs are descended from domesticated Eurasian wolves, which are comparatively unstudied (being extinct in much of Western Europe), and not the North American Timber Wolf (genetically v similar). American wolves tend to be much more hierarchical than Eurasian ones, which are more, well, doggy.
So trying to train dogs by thinking about how Timber Wolves behave isn't all that useful.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 15:00, closed)