[PatrickHenry]

A thread about both dogs and evolution. If only I could toss in the Civil War, we'd have a real winner here.

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

Not a list for the creationism side of the debate. See the list's description in my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added/dropped.

[Rodney King]

A thread about both dogs and evolution. If only I could toss in the Civil War, we'd have a real winner here.

Well I for one am a little dog hating, creationist Rebel. Anyone got a problem with that?

[fishtank]

The existence of cats disproves the possibility of natural selection.

[r9etb]

A thread about both dogs and evolution. If only I could toss in the Civil War, we'd have a real winner here.

There's lots of them neo-confeds who think Abe Lincoln was a son of a bitch -- so I guess we've got that connection, too!

[Red Badger]

Different dog types are not different species. They are different RACES within the species. Two of any type dog mated together produces viable offspring that can reproduce. This is even applicable to wolves and dogs. I have read that the DNA of a wolf and chihuahua are virtually identical, proving that all dogs are really domesticated wolves.......

[bondserv]

Pocking and hoping to shore up the inevitable.

[aimhigh]

Another failed theory which adds nothing. Mutation isn't evolution, since no improvements are seen. And they can't prove the diversity doesn't already exist in the dog gene's.

[Tax-chick]

Bless your heart ... you have such a sense of humor ...

[orionblamblam]

Ping...

[oyez]

Sometimes I wish Gary Larson of "Far Side" fame were a freeper. He could provides some great illustrations in matters like this. The "He's been domesticated" drawing comes to mind here.

[shuckmaster]

Just when the Last Thread was hitting around 850...

[F16Fighter]

"A thread about both dogs and evolution. If only I could toss in the Civil War, we'd have a real winner here."

Lol...

AND an opus...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Domestic dogs are genetically indistinguishable from wolves.

Also, there is no genetic problem with any dog breed interbreeding with another, aside from problems caused by differences in size.

Bottom line is, there has been no "evolution" of dog breeds.

Existing genetic traits have merely been selected for and amplified by dog breeders.

[Conspiracy Guy]

This thread needs a naked mole rat!

[R. Scott]

Pomeranians were bred down from close to 30 pounds in Queen Victoria’s day to the present 6 or 7 pounds. Mine is a larger – weighing in at about 11 pounds – but he still thinks he’s a giant sled dog of the North as his ancestors were when they pulled sledges in Lapland.
He will take on any dog that offers a challenge, even taking out an adult Rottweiler several years ago – when he was much younger and it better shape.

[mafree]

A thread about both dogs and evolution. If only I could toss in the Civil War, we'd have a real winner here.

If one of them is a Calvinist or a Catholic it'd be even more fun. Especially if they were also an immigrant.

[RedWhiteBlue]

[trebb]

For example, between the 1930s and today, purebred bull terriers developed longer, more down-turned noses.

I don't suppose that could be due to breeding choices of the owners???

[djf]

I believe, though, that they have studied populations of feral dogs, and their diversity.

Mutts do, after a few generations, tend to lose the non-dominant breed specific traits, and all tend towards the characteristics that match coyote/wolf traits.

So I would be hard pressed to say that specific breeds is a tendency in evolution. Those breeds were selectively bred for the desired trait. Evolution tends to support a more general purpose mutt.

[finnigan2]

As the owner of both a dog and a cat, I've often marveled at how much easier their species would have survived if they could only have developed some ability to talk. If gives any animal a tremendous advantage in terms of survival that I don't understand why all animals didn't "evolve" this capability.