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In How the Dog Became the Dog, Mark Derr digs into the past to explore how wolves were domesticated, with varying degrees of success

HUMANS persist in trying to subdue nature, and there is perhaps no creature that we have so totally dominated as the dog. From an ancestral grey wolf stock, we have created myriad canines for seemingly every occasion – from muscular mastiffs that guard homes, to pugs and other breeds that have been so…

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