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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Could other animals have been bred as diversely as humans did with wolves?

Good doggie ... a timber wolf howls in Yellowstone national park. Photograph: blickwinkel/Alamy
Good doggie ... a timber wolf howls in Yellowstone national park. Photograph: blickwinkel/Alamy

If humankind had developed a similar relationship with a different species as we did with wolves, would we now have a similar range of variation of giraffes or elephants as we have of dogs?

G Gil

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