Because Salukis
ranged with their nomadic owners
over a
wide area of the Middle East, they became widely distributed with great local
variation, resulting in the breed's variability today.
Based on the findings from
wide -
ranging studies of community
variation (eg, why Aboriginal teen suicide and Aboriginal employment levels vary hugely from band to band; why seniors die during heat waves in some neighbourhoods and not others; why some watershed communities maintain sustainable agriculture
over a millennium while others do not; why the United States biogenetic technology industry is now concentrated in only three places, compared with thirty areas a few decades ago) there is now a strong evidentiary base revealing common underlying characteristics of groups, at the nongovernmental level, that successfully address these challenges.