How the dog became the dog: from wolves to our best friends 978-1-59020-991-2, 1590209915
Describes the early cooperative relationships between Ice Age humans and dogs as well as human society's later effo
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English Pages 287 Year 2011
Table of contents :
Content: Lurking in the shadows --
Cave --
Proper naming --
Cultures of the dog --
Staking claims --
Joining the guild of carnivores: the benefits of membership --
Hoofing it --
What about the wolf? Canis who? --
Dogged pursuits: Neanderthal agonistes or respect for Erectus --
Into the mixing zone --
Old places, new faces --
Further along the road to dog --
Preexisting bond? --
Breaking out
breaking free --
Why a dog is not a wolf --
Running with the dogs --
Ice breaks: frees dog --
What the new world knew that the old one did not --
Call me shepherd: call me dog --
Classics rock --
Wages of empire --
Middlin' dog to guard, hunt, haul, herd, fight, and preen --
Where did that dog get its breeding?
