The Big Search to Find Out Where Dogs Come From

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/science/the-big-search-to-find-out-where-dogs-come-from.html?WT.mc_id=2016-FEBRUARY-FB-MC7-AUD_DEV-0201-0229&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVREMARK

Some researchers question whether dogs experience feelings like love and loyalty, or whether their winning ways are just a matter of instincts that evolved because being a hanger-on is an easier way to make a living than running down elk. Raymond Coppinger, a professor emeritus of biology at Hampshire College, noted in his landmark 2001 book, “Dogs,” that “best friend” is not an “ecological definition.” And he suggested that “the domestic house dog may have evolved into a parasite.”

a very intriguing discussion