The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural evolution during the Anthropocene

Abstract excerpt

While dogs represent an exceptional resource for studying ecological, behavioural and evolutionary processes, they are severely under-represented within these fields due to the anthropomorphisation of dog behaviour, and the view that dog domestication was solely human-driven. These widespread misconceptions have not only led to significant problems in understanding dog behaviour, but also inhibited the use of dogs...

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• Adaptation, Biological
• Animals, Domestic
• Behavior, Animal
• Breeding
• Dogs
• Domestication
• Genetic Variation
• Phenotype

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Literature Corpus work

3849cd27-e882-57c7-b653-3763319ea1cf

DOI

10.32942/x24g7b