[dirtboy]

No scientist believes that because the stringent wolf pecking order and breeding rituals would never allow a mutant to survive, at least that is one strong argument against natural evolution.

What a stoopid attempt at an argument. If men took wolf pups and raised them as pets, there wouldn't be a wolf pack to attack it. DUH....

[jb6]

Actually the way wolves turned to dogs was proven in Russia by the domestication of foxes over about a 50 year period. They now sell domesticated foxes who have both dog/cat behavior traits.

[Oztrich Boy]

If men took wolf pups and raised them as pets<

Even simpler "Dogs and More Dogs," NOVA Good program

Dog evolution is simpler than most people think, contends Raymond Coppinger, professor of biology at Hampshire College and coauthor of Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior & Evolution. Coppinger is convinced that, contrary to the traditional theory that humans actively domesticated wolves, wolves themselves chose domestication because of the easy pickings in Stone Age refuse dumps, where those animals that weren't scared off by people had a better chance of finding food and surviving.

"Any one wolf that's a little tamer than the other, who can stay there longer, gets more food," Coppinger says. "He's the one that's going to win that evolutionary battle."

And there's no reason that process couldn't have begun 100,000 years ago.