How Did Wolves Evolve?

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Explorer: How Man Tamed the Wild : TUE NOV 23 10p et/pt : channel.nationalgeographic.com Biologists discover that curiosity stands out as the main difference between the domesticated dog and the wolf.

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  1. erikdjs March 6, 2011 at 7:25 PM

    I’d be scared of that baby doll.

  2. valentinaehm March 6, 2011 at 8:21 PM

    @8o8hawaiii
    wolves=dogs

  3. valentinaehm March 6, 2011 at 8:28 PM

    i once saw a beautiful husky coming up the road where i was running only to discover it as its whole body revealed itself that it had short stubby legs like a dachsund. i was like wtf? ahaha

  4. kabuto1005443 March 6, 2011 at 9:20 PM

    So funny when the man was surprised the wolf went away haha

  5. Vanessabear19 March 6, 2011 at 9:27 PM

    I was looking up Miley Cryus and this came up.

  6. djpx49 March 6, 2011 at 9:55 PM

    Now I want a wolf pup!!! :)

  7. IamaRifle March 6, 2011 at 10:51 PM

    @nicelogin2 Comming from a guy who believes in the god of nature.

  8. suzitobi350 March 6, 2011 at 11:49 PM

    those wolve pups were adorable<3!

  9. 8o8hawaiii March 7, 2011 at 12:02 AM

    Wolfs>Dogs

  10. BILLKAULITZGIRL4EVER March 7, 2011 at 12:35 AM

    4:33 Pudge, pudge. ^.^

  11. Richmunnich March 7, 2011 at 12:47 AM

    @farvision No I’m fine believing what I heard on Nova (PBS). We were talking about wolves, dinosaurs were just a sidebar.

  12. Bunzypoo March 7, 2011 at 1:14 AM

    @teamstudent Me too. Wolves are nice.

  13. farvision March 7, 2011 at 1:40 AM

    @Richmunnich that’s ‘mitochondrial’ DNA. That’s only one kind of DNA and nuclear DNA such as ribosomal genes would be fine too for tracing lineage. We don’t have dino DNA but do have some protein sequence, google: collagen protein sequence dinosaur (I would recommend ignoring the icr page).

  14. farvision March 7, 2011 at 1:58 AM

    @asuzette idiot.

  15. farvision March 7, 2011 at 2:46 AM

    @alehax27 It’s bad practice to always ask for practical applications of new knowledge because you will suppress the applications. In this case it may mean they can trace the genes of curiosity and find out how curiosity works in some irrelevant species called homo sapiens.

  16. farvision March 7, 2011 at 2:48 AM

    @GoogleVideoMan read about ring species. explain tiktaalik and hundreds of other transitional fossils. Explain phylogenetic trees. Read original scientific papers on evolution at pubmedcentral. Stop making a fool out of yourself.

  17. mekaziona March 7, 2011 at 2:52 AM

    Interesting. I want to research this now:)

  18. teamstudent March 7, 2011 at 3:35 AM

    I love wolves

  19. plasticbarf March 7, 2011 at 3:49 AM

    @Firebird00500 I subscribe to evolution, and there are plenty of proofs of macro-evolution. However, for the record, wolves are not a completely different species. Dogs and wolves can interbreed and produce a fertile offspring. This fact makes Canis Lupus Familiaris (Dog) and Canis Lupus Lupus (Grey Wolf) sub-species of each other and not different species.

  20. plasticbarf March 7, 2011 at 4:38 AM

    @ErichoTTA, as the narrator noted, all domesticated animals demonstrate neoteny.

  21. ErichoTTA March 7, 2011 at 4:56 AM

    I suppose it’s too easy to assume this is the same way we got cats?

  22. CappitranoBellephant March 7, 2011 at 5:10 AM

    I love how he’s just chillin with some random wild wolves lol.

  23. Firebird00500 March 7, 2011 at 5:14 AM

    @GoogleVideoMan Uh, no. Dog breeds is an example of microevolution. Wolves are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from dogs. They’re an entirely different species. Watch the video, do some research and you’ll find that across breeds, dogs have similarities with how they learn (and other things) and those similarities do not exist with wolves. This means that wolves are a classic example of macroevolution.

  24. FireChildSlytherin5 March 7, 2011 at 5:31 AM

    Those baby wolves are so cute.

  25. bludshedd March 7, 2011 at 6:20 AM

    @GoogleVideoMan Wrong.

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