How the Dog Became the Dog
From Wolves to Our Best Friends
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Mark Derr
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That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail they recognized themselves in each other. Both are highly social, accomplished generalists, and creatures of habit capable of adapting - homebodies who like to wander.
How the Dog Became the Dog presents "domestication" of the dog as a biological and cultural process that began in mutual cooperation and has taken a number of radical turns.
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Horses have a story to tell - one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence and of partnership with human beings. In The Horse, journalist and equestrienne Wendy Williams brings that story brilliantly to life. Williams chronicles the 56-million-year journey of horses as she visits with experts around the world, exploring what our biological affinities and differences can tell us about the bond between horses and humans and what our longtime companions might think and feel.
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Full of science.
- By Jennifer90046 on 02-07-17
By: Wendy Williams
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Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
- A Deep Environmental History
- By: Geoff Cunfer, Bill Waiser
- Narrated by: Chuck Buell
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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This audiobook explores the deep past and examines the latest knowledge on bison anatomy and physiology, how bison responded to climate change (especially drought), and early bison hunters and pre-contact trade. It also focuses on the era of European contact, in particular the arrival of the horse, and some of the first known instances of over-hunting. By the 19th century, bison reached a "tipping point" as a result of new tanning practices, an early attempt at protective legislation, and ventures to introducing cattle as a replacement stock.
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Buffalo Gone Baby Gone
- By Jim on 03-24-18
By: Geoff Cunfer, and others
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Cannibalism
- By: Bill Schutt
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt takes us on a tour of the field, exploring exciting new avenues of research and investigating questions like why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mothers' skin.
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Ruined it at the end
- By Kimberly Ames on 12-07-17
By: Bill Schutt
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
- Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
- By: Lyudmila Trut, Lee Alan Dugatkin
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs - they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken - imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time.
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Amazing
- By paul on 10-26-17
By: Lyudmila Trut, and others
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In the Company of Bears
- What Black Bears Have Taught Me About Intelligence and Intuition
- By: Benjamin Kilham
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Imagine raising an orphaned bear cub, carefully reintroducing her to the wild, then being welcomed back, almost daily, to observe her wild world for more than 17 years. Imagine visiting her in her feeding spots, watching her with her mates and her young, peering into her den, and, over time, observing the lives of all the other wild bears in her territory and surrounding ones. That is what happened to Ben Kilham.
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Best Bear book I have read!
- By Walking With Bears on 06-02-21
By: Benjamin Kilham
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Beast
- Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gévaudan
- By: Gustavo Sánchez Romero, S. R. Schwalb
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For three years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the region, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mostly women and children, and inflicting severe injuries upon many others.
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Repetitive
- By Octavia on 10-24-24
By: Gustavo Sánchez Romero, and others
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- By: Richard L. Currier
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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Good facts, not much else
- By Joel B. Gordon on 10-30-16
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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Masters of the Planet
- The Search for Our Human Origins
- By: Ian Tattersall
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special.
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Great Book, Some Sloppy Editing
- By DB on 11-23-20
By: Ian Tattersall
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- bob shorter
- 01-27-24
A thoughtful, historical look at dogs
More of a historical, scientific look at the dog and their relationships to their world, usually humans
I enjoyed it
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- Allison
- 06-26-13
Disapointing.
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Yes, it was somewhat informative.
Would you listen to another book narrated by David Colacci?
Yes.
Did How the Dog Became the Dog inspire you to do anything?
No.
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This book was just not as interesting as I had hoped. This is a subject that I am incredibly interested in and I felt like a learned little that I didn't already know and was actually bored through a lot of it. It is largely focused on anthropology and a lot of what the author claims is mostly opinion (albeit, a very well studied and informed opinion).
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- Drewjd2
- 07-01-24
Great information!
Haven’t written a review for awhile but wanted to make sure I gave this 5 stars. It was free with membership. Well worth the ear read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-31-19
a good history very scientific
if you're looking for a book that's meant to make you feel warm and fuzzy this one's not it...
it is very much a scientific approach to the history of a dog..... it is very insightful
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- N. Rogers
- 12-12-11
Interesting and thorough, but not for everyone
Would you listen to How the Dog Became the Dog again? Why?
I probably will not listen to this again because, although much of the detail was helpful in supporting the connection between the evolution of the dog with that of our own species, I doubt that I will have time to revisit it now that I have accepted the primary concept: we have co-evolved over a longer period of time than was previously believed.
What was one of the most memorable moments of How the Dog Became the Dog?
At the end of the book, the author discusses how the role of the dog has changed significantly in recent times from that during all of our prior history together. This has created serious problems for dogs because they are being bred primarily to artificial breed standards rather than for pet potential or for the original jobs they did such as herding, hunting, guarding, etc. Few modern breeds retain the characteristics that were developed originally.
Have you listened to any of David Colacci???s other performances before? How does this one compare?
This is the first audiobook I have listened to narrated by David Colacci. I felt he did a very good job with the material.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I was left with concern for dogs in our present culture, especially pedigree dogs. So many have serious diseases from the birth because of the way they are being bred and marketed. This affirmed our decision to rescue an adult mixed-breed dog from our local shelter rather than take on the probable physical and emotional problems so common in pure-bred dogs. Our dog is truly a treasure, and the last section of this book helped me to appreciate him even more.
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- Kelly
- 12-15-23
good information but needs less opinions
this book is overall good with lots of good historical and scientific information. the reader is clear and easy to understand. My only complaint is the authors clear dislike for purebred dogs and his not recognizing that their is a large difference between modern purebred and modern well-bred dogs and that all of his criticisms of purebred dogs can be placed squarely on BYB, puppymills and designer dog breeders and not with modern preservation breeders who are still breeding for the betterment of the dog.
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- Rachel
- 12-24-23
disappointing
the book doesn't feel like it progresses. just keep circling back to same topics
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