2007-02-04 15:33:47 · 10 answers · asked by angie20k 4 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Too much information to answer here, but basically through intelligence on the wolves, and other wild canines, behalf to gain food and shelter in exchange for loyalty to a human pack as opposed to a canine pack, wild canines were domesticated. These were then selectively bred for certain traits. When there were deformities that were advantageous to humans, those deformities or traits were bred for, giving webbed feet, coat lengths, sizes, temperments, and such. It was a LONG process and wasn't without alot of interbreeding and cross breeding, but that's the "short" version of it.
2007-02-04 15:59:41 · answer #1 · answered by skachicah35 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
After up to date genetic study puppies definitely were reclassified as a subspecies of wolves. Its hard to think that so many persons would think that a canine and Wolf would now not interbreed! Have no of those people ever visible a Discovery Channel application? Animal Planet? How about undeniable usual sense? The dog and Wolf breeds only recently diverged from each other on account that WE took wolves and bred for features that we desired. Some breeders nonetheless work wolves again into dog populations as visible in the so-referred to as "wolfdog hybrids" even though after a pair generations the offspring is virtually indistinguishable kind dogs again. It simply goes to proven how a long way that you could believe these Q&A pages.
2016-08-10 15:07:23 · answer #2 · answered by crumble 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No matter what the original dog was, breeds of any animal came about in the same way. Mutations occur naturally in animals and some looked appealing to humans so they took those animals and bred them. Their babies carried that same mutation and thus we had 2 breeds. Slowly different mutations kept showing up and that split it even more. Then people thought about what it would look like if you crossed this mutation with that one, and their young became a new breed.
Basicly humans used choice breeding to decide how they looked and various tastes produced various breeds.
2007-02-04 15:50:06 · answer #3 · answered by missknightride 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Evolution. Mitochondrial DNA confirm that all breeds of dogs originated from one wild ancestor, the wolf.
Theories are still circulating that dogs didn't descend from wolves, but from an ancient wild dog (pariah), that Mastiffs decended from Mongolian wolves, that bird dogs came from jackals and the dhole came form coyotes.
2007-02-04 15:43:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
First, to answer your question, scientific research points to the truth that dogs were moved from different climates, they then adapted or were bred for certain characteristics and then were called by a new name, thus creating a new breed. Second, EVOLUTION Does Not Exist. IT IS A FIGMENT OF SOMEONES IMAGINATION WHO JUST GOT BORED!
2007-02-05 03:57:55 · answer #5 · answered by smartgeniusgirl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Humans selectively bred them for specific traits over thousands of years.
It is also possible that other canine species, like the coyote, were used to contribute to the dog's gene pool.
2007-02-04 15:46:16 · answer #6 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This didn't happen over night...it took thousands of years of selective breeding using different types of canines.
2007-02-04 15:57:43 · answer #7 · answered by anemonecanadensis 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dogs are in the same family as wolves. Only.. They are domesticated unlike it wolf cousin..
2007-02-04 16:17:50 · answer #8 · answered by BigWashSr 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because wolves are dogs too, git it? ha,
2007-02-04 15:39:40 · answer #9 · answered by bigturkeyme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
god maybe, or maybe some kind of chemical... when you die let me know.
2007-02-04 15:37:27 · answer #10 · answered by DDR QUEEN 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋