Sentences with phrase «evolutionary history of dogs»

This makes sense when you consider the evolutionary history of dogs — their ancestors, the gray wolves, were probably not drinking cow's milk in the wild!

«The evolutionary history of the dog suggests a predilection for a diet that is more omnivorous in nature, while the history of the cat indicates that this species has consumed a purely carnivorous diet throughout its evolutionary development,» explains Case.

Not exact matches

The history of evolutionary studies has been dogged by the intuitively attractive, almost irresistible idea that the whole great process leads to greater complexity, to animals that are more advanced than their predecessors.

For decades, geneticists, archaeologists, and evolutionary biologists have been trying to trace the history of Canis lupus familiaris (dogs), with conflicting results.

A similar, but perhaps less extensive, adaptation to increased intake of starches has been found in us humans, which reflects how tightly linked the evolutionary history of humans and dogs are.

At no time in their evolutionary history (except in the last 50 to 150 years) have cats and dogs been subjected to cooked grain in any amount, and certainly not as the basis of their diet.»

The argument that dogs are designed by their evolutionary history to eat raw meat based diets is riddled with errors and fallacies and ignores the impact of tens of thousands of years of domestication and cohabitation with humans on the physiology of our canine friends.

And humans at least for a long part of our evolutionary history were dependent on dogs.

By using advanced evolutionary genetic techniques, scientists traced the history of this mutation over time.3 It first appeared in a herding dog in Great Britain in the late 19th century, before the collie breed even originated.

A recent study by the National Institutes of Health looked at the genetic history of 161 breeds of dogs to better map out their evolutionary past.