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To: jazusamo

“Wolves are dogs and dogs are wolves. There are probably more wolves living in people’s homes these days than ever lived in the wild.

When making silly statements like this you have to be prepared to back them up or are you a hit and run poster?”

Where did you think dogs came from? Did you think that God created them separate from the wolf? They are nothing but domesticated wolves.

“The domestic dog is an extremely close relative of the gray wolf, differing from it by at most 0.2% of mtDNA sequence....

In comparison, the gray wolf differs from its closest wild relative, the coyote, by about 4% of mitochondrial DNA sequence.”

Robert K. Wayne, Ph.D.

“Molecular evolution of the dog family”
Theoretical and Applied Genetics


52 posted on 12/24/2011 6:59:15 AM PST by juno67 (a)
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To: juno67
I'll not quibble the difference in percentage though I've read the difference in DNA is 1%.

“The domestic dog is an extremely close relative of the gray wolf, differing from it by at most 0.2% of mtDNA sequence....

I know dogs are descendants of wolves and you just admitted that dogs are not wolves and wolves are not dogs but they're close.

54 posted on 12/24/2011 11:07:34 AM PST by jazusamo (The real minimum wage is zero: Thomas Sowell)
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