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It goes back faRther than that. Dogs eyes evolved to see human eyes when humans and dogs teamed up to defeat neanderthals.
“We finally know ...”
That would be great if science were always right and never had to update their theories. Newton wasn’t entirely correct. Einstein wasn’t entirely correct. That’s the nature of Science. You always learn more, and you always realize that don’t know what you thought you knew.
But in the modern world of grant funded research, it’s important to always be able to say, “We finally know ...”
We know masks work.
We know masks don’t work.
We know eggs are good for you.
We know eggs are bad for you.
Coffee is good.
Coffee is bad.
And here is where dingoes sit on the evolutionary tree. It is known.
Plenty of references to insights derived or derrivable from this study/investigation, but they are all apparently just a tease. [likely for continuing funding...]
Sure, as a PhD / grad student project, this would be a very appropriate pursuit, proving mastery of the subject and advancing a part of it [most PhD theses are not terribly revelatory].
But almost assuredly the gov. spent $million$ upon $millions$ to place the dingo falls in the canine evolutionary spectrum. So long as the ‘study’ also scolds us plebes how ‘global warming’ is causing their extinction.
But they missed the biggest stat: what gender is the Dingo? When did it decide? How dare you assign it a biological sex! And how white people are the problem [with what? doesn’t matter]
That’s where the $$$$$$$ needs to be spent.
The dingo ate yo baby.
I figure dingoes are a mix between kangaroos and dachshunds, because the latter will cross with anything.
Any 5 year old will you a Dingo is a dog and nothing more...
Let’s stick to things we can actually prove...
If it can cross breed with a dog and the offspring aren’t sterile, doesn’t that make it....a dog?
If it can cross breed with a dog and the offspring aren’t sterile, doesn’t that make it....a dog?
That dingo ate my baby 🤪
Allah be praised, now I can sleep again.
Fodder for at least one of your lists
We Finally Know Where Dingos Sit in Dogs’ Evolutionary Family Tree.
Any dog that can sit in a tree is one to treasure.
My blue heeler could do that but I had to put the
ladder up first.
Im sure you realize by now that none of this research, regardless of the intent of the researcher, really has anything to do with dogs.
While many hybrid dingoes are similar in appearance, there has been substantial crossbreeding, particularly in New South Wales and Victoria."
That's a bit of an understatement, given dingoes were bred to collies by Thomas Hall 180 years ago, and after a flurry of subsequent breeding 'refinements' in Oz, the AuCaDo made its way to the US and has been an AKC recognized breed for 42 years. You can still see the dingo in them.
Dingoes also hop and have a pouch...