Our oldest companions : the story of the first dogs

1. Verfasser: Shipman, Pat 1949-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Umfang/Format: xii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Schlagworte:
Dogs > Evolution.
Dogs > Effect of human beings on.
Coevolution
Human-animal relationships
Human evolution
Paleontology
Chiens > Évolution.
Chiens > Effets de l'homme sur.
Coévolution.
Relations homme-animal.
Homme > Évolution.
Paléontologie.
paleontology.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Before dogs
  • Why a dog? And why a human?
  • What is dogginess?
  • One place or two?
  • What is domestication?
  • Where did the first dog come from?
  • Interwoven stories
  • The missing dogs
  • Adaptations
  • Surviving in new ecosystems
  • Why has the Australian story been overlooked so long?
  • The importance of dingoes
  • How invasion works
  • A different story
  • Heading north
  • To the end of the earth.

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