Sentences with phrase «studied ancient dog»

«I think it's a perfectly credible and logical case,» says Darcy Morey, a zooarchaeologist at Radford University in Virginia who has studied ancient dog burials.

«It's an interesting time, because the technology is moving faster than our ability to ask questions of it,» Greger Larson, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oxford who studies ancient dogs and wolves, told Nature in June.

Not exact matches

Wynne can't say for sure whether the domestication process happened at multiple villages at different times, or if it happened just once, as indicated by another recent study that looked at DNA from ancient dog fossils.

Sharpe said that further studies are needed to investigate what roles did animals, like dogs, play in the evolution of the Mayan civilization or the ancient Mesoamerica in general.

A new study into the longevity of the ancient Roman breed, the Cane Corso, has discovered that dogs with a brindle coat...

A study by UC Davis showed that there was a prevalence of genetic disorders in both populations (rescue and bred): «Recently derived breeds or those from similar lineages appeared to be more susceptible to certain disorders that affect all closely related purebred dogs, whereas disorders with equal prevalence in the two populations suggested that those disorders represented more ancient mutations that are widely spread through the dog population.»

As in a 2004 study that found 9 «ancient breeds» to be genetically divergent, the study found 13 breeds that were genetically divergent from the modern breeds: the Basenji, Saluki, Afghan hound, Samoyed, Canaan dog, New Guinea singing dog, dingo, Chow Chow, Chinese Shar Pei, Akita, Alaskan malamute, Siberian husky and American Eskimo dog.

museums and archives of Russian cynology (the study of canine evolution and breed development) provide documentary evidence of dogs that descended from the ancient spitz - type hunting dogs and looked identical to today's Karelian Bear Dogs (KBdogs that descended from the ancient spitz - type hunting dogs and looked identical to today's Karelian Bear Dogs (KBdogs and looked identical to today's Karelian Bear Dogs (KBDogs (KBDs).

One study from 2015 by the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School theorized that today's domesticated dogs might owe their ancestral origins to multiple ancient wolf breeds.

Previous studies indicate that some inherited disorders do not have significantly different prevalence across both the purebred and mixed - breed dog populations [6] which may represent ancient disease liability genes that preceded breed formation that are now distributed throughout the canine population as a whole or reflect recent purebred contributions to mixed - breed individuals.