> evoke particular blends and combinations I long ago encountered a suggestion that the great behavioral malleability of historical dog breeding resulted from

> evoke particular blends and combinations I long ago encountered a suggestion that the great behavioral malleability of historical dog breeding resulted from taking a common ancestral hunting sequence, and tweaking dials on the steps. So for fudged illustration, given a sequence of <chase-it-down, bite-hard-on-neck, shake-until-dead, carry-back, bury-it>, turning the "bite" step down, and the "shake" and "bury" steps way down, gets you a retriever breed. This malleability then misled people about the broader flexibility and efficacy of selective breeding. Like someone going "Look what I did today tweaking a configuration file! ... Programming is so easy!". I thought the paper might make for a fun web interactive (but IIRC had difficulty refinding it).