[Salamander]

Dogs and wolves split off from an ancient common ancestor.

The “dogs are wolves” has been debunked.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches/dogs_are_not_domesicated_wolves/

[Dr. Franklin]

Dogs and wolves split off from an ancient common ancestor.
The “dogs are wolves” has been debunked.

You are playing with semantics. Pigs are domesticated boars. Goats are domesticated Bezoar ibex. Chicken are domesticated red junglefowl. Cattle are domesticated aurochs. Dogs are domesticated gray wolves. The science is overwhelming. They were all bred, or evolved, to favor useful traits for humans. Humans killed the most aggressive wolves in their living areas but tolerated the more docile ones who learned to coexist symbiotically with humans. Dogs keep rat populations down, which cats don't, reducing the spread of disease. Studies show that dogs pups observe and interact with humans in ways that wolf pups don't. They did evolve differently, but to say they aren't domesticated wolves is also false.