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Sarah27 · Aug 21, 2008

Just found this interesting article.

...the "domesticated wolf" theory has serious problems. Some features of dog anatomy, particularly brain structure, resemble jackals and coyotes, but not wolves. Although the most primitive dog breeds and the oldest feral populations all look similar, they do not particularly resemble wolves, having typical dog anatomy and mostly reddish or yellowish coloration. There is absolutely no archaeological evidence of any transition from wolves to dogs from human sites. And, most interestingly, pariah dogs of Asia are not known to hybridize with sympatric wolves, even where both forms coexist in very close proximity.
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http://dinets.travel.ru/dogs.htm

I'd read (when researching a raw diet) that domesticated dogs have 0.5% difference in their mitrochondrial DNA to wolves. But this article seems to suggest that domesticated dogs came from a type of dog that became exticnt about 100,000 years ago.

So, you can breed a dog to 'look' like a wolf, but originally they didn't come from wolves (according to this man anyway).

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