If dogs came from wolves, why are there still wolves?
2007-07-03 12:03:22 · 18 answers · asked by Darth Cheney 7 in Pets ➔ Dogs
You see, Darth, those wolves aren't real - Satan had the atheists breed vicious dogs until they turned into wolf-like creatures just to make it seem like there really WERE wolves. When the dogs came over on the Ark with Noah and the unicorns and dinosaurs and crockoducks all was well - until the Crucifixion, of course. Then the atheists started up this whole ridiculous "theory" of evolution and attempted to prove it by planting fossils and the like, and acting as if dogs came from wolves (ridiculous! See Isiah 22:8). Why? Because atheists are Satan's little helpers. Nasty, the lot of 'em.
2007-07-03 12:12:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
The jury is still out, because there is some speculation that dogs and wolves had a common ancestor...
But genetically, dogs and wolves are closer than men and monkeys. Dogs and wolves can still interbreed. So, it is not too much of a stretch to say that dogs are specialized wolves... just as Golden Retrievers are specialized retrievers.
So there is no reason for wolves to disappear, because wolves and dogs occupy two completely different evolutionary niches.
2007-07-03 12:12:05 · answer #2 · answered by hanksimon 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Audrey is correct. not that long ago, a show on dogs was done on one of the Animal Channels (I can't remember which one).
Breeders did a "test" breeding. They pulled these fox-like dog creatures (I don't remember what they were, they weren't a fox and it wasn't a dog). They only took docile ones - and since they were actually wild animals, they had to do some searching. They bred the dociles with the dociles (who weren't all that docile by the way). Then they took those offspring and again only pulled the most calm of them, the most "friendly" of them. They bred those together.
From that stock, again they pulled only the most docile, most calm, most friendly and bred them.
By the third breeding (the fourth generation produced) they had bred a docile calm animal that was "domesticated".
So, it can be done, they just have to be pulled and selectively bred for those characteristics!
I wish I could remember the show. It was an English lady (not the show It's me or the dog - and she was blonde). She did lots about different breeds and dominance and behaviour. It wasn't a "how to fix" your dog's behaviour, it was how behaviour can be traced back ancetrally. It was also in this show that I learned that a bulldog is actually a genetic mess! They were bred for certain genetic maladies which is why they look the way that they do!
2007-07-03 13:13:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because not all wolves became domesticated. The wolves that showed an affinity for humans were bred, creating more and more domesticated versions. Eventually becoming further and further removed from the original wolf. There was a split in the genetic tree, and the two became separate species.
2007-07-03 12:10:09 · answer #4 · answered by Audrey A 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Dogs are a product of selective breeding.
Early man favored wolves that maintained "juvenile" traits, like low aggression, and bred for these traits. the varied colors of dogs happened as a by product of this.
Once man had a base of domesticated dog stock, he stopped taking wolves from the wild, as this was no longer necessary, hence the wolve population went on uninfluenced by manand the dog population was bred into the wide variety of forms we have today.
Or were you looking for someone to to say the fact that there are still woves proves there is no evolution?
I'm not always sure......
2007-07-03 12:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Dogs are descended from wolves. That doesn't mean they replaced them. Somewhere along the line, dogs developed differently - probably to adapt to their surroundings. Just because an animal or fish or bird develops differently from its ancestors doesn't mean the original species had to disappear.
2007-07-03 12:10:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not all the wolves wanted to be social with homosapiens.
2007-07-03 12:07:00 · answer #7 · answered by Wyandotte Hen 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It has to do with genetic drift in populations. Basically, only part of the population had the right environmental pressures to have more pups with more dog type genes survive. The other portion of the population had more pressure causing more of the pups with wolf type genes to survive.
2007-07-03 12:09:59 · answer #8 · answered by r2mm 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some of those people above should know not to take this question seriously.
Drink for me, someone. I have to 'teach' a group of existentially bored 14 year olds tomorrow morning.
2007-07-03 12:25:36 · answer #9 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OMG!!!!!
sweet, the drinking game evolves to incorporate the dog section!!
**giant swig of beer**
2007-07-03 12:36:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋