if dogs came from cats,how is there so many breeds?

Answer 1

Sorry, but dogs did not "come" from cats. If you were implying that dogs evolved from cats, then that is correct to the extent that every living thing on this planet evolved from the same ancestor at one point in time. Different breeds of any species are due to the individual adaptations needed to survive in diverse environments and habitats.

Answer 2

Dogs from cats? What you have there is a compound question. That is, it contains two questions which must be answered to get an accurate answer. A) Did dogs evolve from cats? and B) How is it that there are so many breeds?

As far as the evolution part, maybe it's possible, we don't KNOW for sure what happened. No one who was there at the time is still alive to tell us what actually happened, but it doesn't appear from the evidence available that the two are closely related. Since part A cannot be resolved, part B becomes irrelevant.

Compound questions are notoriously used by debaters in nattempts to enter facts into evidence which have not been established. Like asking a man "When did you stop beating your wife?" without establishing the fact that he EVER beat his wife.

Answer 3

Dogs did not "come from" cats..... it is thought that dogs and cats share a Common ancestor.

Excerpt from Wikipedia... The earliest fossil carnivores that can be linked with some certainty to canids are the Eocene Miacids some 55 to 38 million years ago. From the miacids evolved the cat-like (Feloidea) and dog-like (Canoidea) carnivores. Most important to the ancestry of the dog was the canoid line, leading from the coyote-sized Mesocyon of the Oligocene (38 to 24 million years ago) to the fox-like Leptocyon and the wolf-like Tomarctus that roamed North America some 10 million years ago. From the time of Tomarctus, dog-like carnivores have expanded throughout the world.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_dog

The superfamily Miacoidea can be divided into two families: the Miacidae and the Viverravidae. The Miacidae evolved into the caniforms (dogs, bears, raccoons and weasels), while the Viverravidae evolved into the feliforms (cats, hyaenas and mongooses). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miacids

The reason why there are so many breeds of dogs has nothing to do with thier common ancestry to cats....

Excerpt from Wikipedia... Carles Vilà of UCLA,[1], who has conducted the most extensive study to date, has shown that DNA evidence has ruled out any ancestor canine species except the wolf. Vila's team analyzed 162 different examples of wolf DNA from 27 populations in Europe, Asia, and North America. These results were compared with DNA from 140 individual dogs from 67 breeds gathered from around the world. Using blood or hair samples, DNA was extracted and genetic distance for mitochondrial DNA was estimated between individuals.

Based on this DNA evidence, most of the domesticated dogs were found to be members of one of four groups. The largest and most diverse group contains sequences found in the most ancient dog breeds, including the dingo of Australia, the New Guinea singing dog, and many modern breeds, like the collie and retriever. Other groups such as the German shepherd showed a closer relation to wolf sequences than to those of the main dog group, suggesting that such breeds had been produced by crossing dogs with wild wolves. It is also possible that this is evidence that dogs may have been domesticated from wolves on different occasions and at different places. Vilà is still uncertain whether domestication happened once - after which domesticated dogs bred with wolves from time to time - or whether it happened more than once.

The most puzzling fact of the DNA evidence is that the variability in molecular distance between dogs and wolves seems greater than the 10-20,000 years assigned to domestication. Based upon the molecular clock studies conducted, it would seem that dogs separated from the wolf lineage approximately 100,000 years ago. Although clear evidence for fossil dogs becomes obscure beyond about 14,000 years ago, there are fossils of wolf bones in association with early humans from well beyond 100,000 years ago.[8] Tamed wolves might have taken up with hunter-gatherers without changing in ways that the fossil record could clearly capture. These dogs-in-process would possibly have dallied with wolves as packs of humans and canines traveled out of Africa and around the world. Since evidence of dogs is not found elsewhere before 14,000 years ago, it may be that the "Sahara pump" associated with the Glacial Maximum was responsible for the spread of the dogs out of Africa. Such a thesis is compatible with the spread of languages associated with the Nostratic hypothesis.

The influx of new genes from those crossings could very well explain the extraordinarily high number of dog breeds that exist today, the researchers suggest. Dogs have much greater genetic variability than other domesticated animals (cats, for instance) asserts Vilà. Once agriculture took hold, dogs would have been selected for different tasks, their wolf-like natures becoming a handicap as they became herders and guards. Ostrander is of the view that "When we became an agricultural society, what we needed dogs for changed enormously, and a further and irrevocable division occurred at that point." This may be the point that stands out in the fossil record, when dogs and wolves began to develop noticeably different morphologies.

Answer 4

Dogs did not come from cats. People and animals did not evolve from some primordial ooze. If you look at animals, the skeletal structure, muscular structure, nerve patterns, you will realize that this is not just random. Evolution is a junk science when it comes to this subject. Yes, certain animals "micro-evolve" which is another word for adaptation.

Answer 5

evolution over time. people selecting traits from dogs that they liked and then breeding them until they got those desirable traits.

Answer 6

Can you say, 'creation?'