You're welcome to come and count the molars on my dog anytime.  My friend
Sam has a wolf, but I'm not sure you would want to count hers. In either
case the molars will have ridges just like yours do, a feature lacking in
herbavore molars.

Walter L Voigtlin's (M.D. F.A.C.P.) book "The Stone Age Diet"(NY, Vantage
Press, 1975) has several chapters comparing human teeth, jaws, stomach,
Colon and cecum, gallbladers, digestive activity, feeding habits,
survival after removal of various organs and ratio of body lenth to total
GI and small intestines with those of other mammals.  In this exhaustive
comparison (with charts) the dog wins as the closest to humans compared
to all other animals (including other primates).

Further citations can be found in the articles by Aiello et al and
Leonard et al in the bibliography at my website.

The theories you quote are based on the work of John Harvey Kellogg (cir.
1880) and are not supported by the current literature.  Since the advent
of modern field studies, it is now known that there are no vegetarian
primates.  All monkeys and apes eat meat in some form every day and most
spend almost as much time gathering it (ie grooming) as in eating fruits
and other vegetables.  If you run naked through the rain forest for a day
and then weight the parasites clinging to your skin, you'll get an idea
at just how much meat this is!

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin:A Caveman's Guide to Nutrition"
http://www.sofdesign.com/neander


Keith wrote:
> If you have any data which suggests wolves (or wild dogs) have molars,
> please let me know.
>
> Keith