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A New Origin Story for Dogs (2016)

39 points by acqbu 5y ago

bargle0 5y ago
Did we ever get that follow-up from 6-12 months later?
Rebelgecko 5y ago
If you're interested in the opposite sort of story, check out City by Clifford Simak
cguess 5y ago
This might be the most realistic depiction of an academic conference I’ve ever read. (the last two graphs): 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 5y ago
  Alcohol, the solution to all world problems
  - rbobby 5y ago
    And the cause
rambambram 5y ago
"Dogged", "hounded", "doggy style"... this became annoying pretty quickly.
lil_dispaches 5y ago
"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 5y ago
  it gets even worse.. Maybe a teenager author wrote it? "Along their travels, these migrants encountered the indigenous Ancient Western dogs, mated with them (doggy style, presumably), and effectively replaced them."
pelasaco 5y ago
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-domestication-may-have-happened-first-in-asia/6869038 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2015-10-20/dog-domestica...

39 points by acqbu 5y ago

bargle0 5y ago

Did we ever get that follow-up from 6-12 months later?

Rebelgecko 5y ago

If you're interested in the opposite sort of story, check out City by Clifford Simak

cguess 5y ago

This might be the most realistic depiction of an academic conference I’ve ever read. (the last two graphs): 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 5y ago
Alcohol, the solution to all world problems
- rbobby 5y ago
  And the cause

rambambram 5y ago

"Dogged", "hounded", "doggy style"... this became annoying pretty quickly.

lil_dispaches 5y ago

"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 5y ago
it gets even worse.. Maybe a teenager author wrote it? "Along their travels, these migrants encountered the indigenous Ancient Western dogs, mated with them (doggy style, presumably), and effectively replaced them."

pelasaco 5y ago

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-domestication-may-have-happened-first-in-asia/6869038 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2015-10-20/dog-domestica...