Sentences with phrase «modern breeds only»

The 2012 study found that modern breeds only emerged in the 19th century and that claims of their antiquity are based on little or no historical or empirical evidence.

Not exact matches

Only much later, after modern humans arrived, was the peach domesticated and bred.
The oldest modern dog breeds are no more than 500 years old, and most date only from ~ 150 years ago.
Turns out former President Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of the modern Singapore state, believed that well - educated people should only breed with each other to ensure the country would, as he put it, have enough «bright people to support dumb people in the next generation.»
Perhaps we're entering in these modern years a new age where only judges, handlers and dog show participants really care about these strict guidelines, known as official breed standards.
Known as the «King Charles Spaniel» or «Charlies» in Britain, they were bred to the oriental short - nosed breeds in the 1800s to create the modern day King Charles Spaniel which are only called English Toy Spaniels in North America today (known as King Charles Spaniel abroad).
«It is now generally agreed that the ancestor of the modern dog is the wolf... [the] process of domestication where our ancestors removed the «wildness» from the wolf, involved thousands of years of selective breeding... In this process, our ancestors produced hundreds of «different looking wolves»... our ancestors made only two basic changes to the wolf.
The food fed must contain the same balance and type of ingredients as consumed by those wild ancestors... Please note that modern dogs of any breed are not only capable of eating the food of their wild ancestors, but actually require it for maximum health.
The modern breed was developed from dogs found in the countryside around Bern, Switzerland and is only... Read more
While some breeds are routinely subjected to ear - cropping in the United States, this is almost entirely a cosmetic (and in the opinion of most, cruel) surgical mutilation with its roots in the ancestral jobs of certain working breeds, but which has no relevance in the life of a modern dog — and only very mildly helps to combat ear problems, if at all.
Moreover, their differentiation into breed groups has only occurred relatively recently in modern civilization.
Breeding for form rather than function made rapid conformational changes in the breed; the shoulders straightened, the jaw became long and narrow, and the chest deepened to the point of preventing most modern day Fox Terriers from ever entering an earth, assuming they would have an owner would desire them to do so, and that their instinct would remain after years of breeding only fBreeding for form rather than function made rapid conformational changes in the breed; the shoulders straightened, the jaw became long and narrow, and the chest deepened to the point of preventing most modern day Fox Terriers from ever entering an earth, assuming they would have an owner would desire them to do so, and that their instinct would remain after years of breeding only fbreeding only for show.
Although small in number, with only the Affenpinscher being a rarer AKC Toy breed, today the English Toy Spaniel is beloved by average citizens and quite adaptable to most any modern - era living arrangements, town or country.
The modern breed was developed from dogs found in the countryside around Bern, Switzerland and is only one of several Swiss breeds.
A group of scientists won the 2017 Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security for applying advanced breeding techniques to strains of primitive and modern wheat to develop a set of durum wheat varieties that can not only withstand constant 35 to 40 degree Celsius (95 to 104 degree Fahrenheit) heat,
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