[HN Gopher] A New Origin Story for Dogs (2016)
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       A New Origin Story for Dogs (2016)
        
       Author : acqbu
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2021-12-26 10:11 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theatlantic.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com)
        
       | Rebelgecko wrote:
       | If you're interested in the opposite sort of story, check out
       | City by Clifford Simak
        
       | bargle0 wrote:
       | Did we ever get that follow-up from 6-12 months later?
        
       | cguess wrote:
       | This might be the most realistic depiction of an academic
       | conference I've ever read. (the last two graphs):
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       | Indeed, beyond accumulating DNA and virtual skulls, Larson's
       | greatest skill is in gathering collaborators. In 2013, he rounded
       | up as many dog researchers as he could and flew them to Aberdeen,
       | so he could get them talking. "I won't say there was no tension,"
       | he says. "You go into a room with someone who has written
       | something that sort of implies you aren't doing very good science
       | ... there will be tension. But it went away very quickly. And,
       | frankly: alcohol.
       | 
       | "Everyone was like: You know what? If I'm completely wrong and I
       | have to eat crow on this, I don't give a shit. I just want to
       | know."
        
         | NikolaeVarius wrote:
         | Alcohol, the solution to all world problems
        
           | rbobby wrote:
           | And the cause
        
       | rambambram wrote:
       | "Dogged", "hounded", "doggy style"... this became annoying pretty
       | quickly.
        
       | lil_dispaches wrote:
       | "Tens of thousands of year ago, before the internet..."
       | 
       | Writing is such crap all over the place. Really? Exposition about
       | when the internet wasn't?
       | 
       | Idk what the story says, but wild canines followed mankind as
       | they mastered the domain of nature with hunting. What could more
       | taming than free bones and gristle left behind a pack of wild and
       | free humans with no natural predators, gobbling up prehistoric
       | beasts?
        
         | pelasaco wrote:
         | it gets even worse.. Maybe a teenager author wrote it?
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         | "Along their travels, these migrants encountered the indigenous
         | Ancient Western dogs, mated with them (doggy style,
         | presumably), and effectively replaced them."
        
       | pelasaco wrote:
       | Something that was already known is that maybe dogs were
       | domesticated in Mongolia. The studies and theories discussed in
       | this article, IMO kinds of support it.
       | 
       | Reference: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2015-10-20/dog-
       | domestica...
        
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