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How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail they recognized themselves inā¦
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This book presented me with many questions I could not stop thinking about. Without the partnership and support of the dog, what would our human history and cultures look like? From the Arctic regions dependent upon sled dogs to all the pastoral and hunting peoples, would these cultures have existed without dogs as partners?
Derr not only shows us the science of canine evolutionāhow the wolf became the dogāthis book also asserts the essential question we should continually ask ourselvesāare we doing right by our oldest and deepest animal companion?
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