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The dogs didn’t vanish, they were subsumed into the wider dog gene pool, and the closest this article gets to recognizing it is that the european dogs “were rep
by drb91 8y ago
The dogs didn’t vanish, they were subsumed into the wider dog gene pool, and the closest this article gets to recognizing it is that the european dogs “were replaced in terms of genetic frequency”.
Meanwhile, the original paper’s headline is: “Dogs accompanied humans during the Neolithic expansion into Europe.” Much more straightforward and leads directly with the finding rather than an awkward narrative bolted on top.
could we link directly to the paper here? http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/10/20180286 http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/10/2018028...