Once a wolf : the science behind our dogs' astonishing genetic evolution
Bryan Sykes (Author)
Reveals how all dogs share a common ancestry with a small group of domesticated wolves and how the vast range of canine breeds were created by a few gene mutations
Print Book, English, 2019
First American edition View all formats and editions
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 2019
History
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781631493799, 1631493795
1076474504
Lupa
Darwin's dilemma
I met a traveller from an antique land
On the origin of wolves
The living fossil
Let the bones speak
The cave of forgotten dreams
Hunting with wolves
Why didn't Shaun Ellis get eaten by wolves?
Friend or foe?
A touch of evil
The basic framework
We see the first dogs
The studbook of Dudly Coutts Marjoribanks
The emergence of modern breeds
The dog genome
The genetics of pedigree breeds
The dance of life
At the heart of the matter
In the lab
The scientist who came in from the cold
The autumn muster
The girl who talks with dogs
Born again: cloning your dog
Beyond the reach of reason
Reprint of: The wolf within : the astonishing evolution of the wolf into man's best friend. London : William Collins, 2018