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At 17:36 1999-05-04 -0400, Nelson wrote:
>A team of geneticists and evoloutionary biologists at UCLA estimate that
>the first transformation from wolf to dog may have happened more than
>100,000 years ago, and that there were at least two domestication events,
>although from the same progenitor.
Swedish research, a bi-product of building a database of genes from
all dog-races of the world, has concluded that dogs inherit from
four female wolves 100-130 kya. One of these is the ancestor of one
single dog-race (swedish jamthund), so all other races share
the other three ancestors. Mitocondrial dna was the base for this,
that is why inheritance on the female side is known only.
- Hans
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