Dogs and modernity: dogs in history and culture

Neil Pemberton is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Center for Science Technology and Medical History at the University of Manchester, and Julie-Marie Strange is a Professor of English History at the University of Manchester.

Stanley Coron is the author of books including gods, ghosts, and black dogs, is the wisdom of dogs, is the dog a dream? Why do modern dogs and dogs born in Buck have wet noses? The history of footprints, dog's way of thinking, dog's way of saying, why dogs like, the dog knows what dog's intelligence; why does my dog ​​do this? Understand dogs fools; sleep thieves; left-sided syndrome

The dog shows the ancient and modern pedigree. Because the Victorian development of modern dog breeds used very few ancient blood, the ancient descendants appeared most in Asia, but it was the least in Europe. All dogs' groups (diversity, village and wild) show some evidence of genetic mixing between modern and ancient dogs. There are no longer some old doggroups that once occupied Europe and the New World. Some of the older group of dogs are completely replaced, others are mixed for a long time.

Today, most dogs are a mixture of dogs and dogs. That's why it is so hard for scientists to decipher the DNA of modern dogs. Several varieties, such as Greenland Sled dogs and Siberian Huskies, seem to have mixed lines from the breed of dogs in the western Eurasia and East Asia. New research answers a series of unresolved questions - but there are still many things to do. For example, for Eurasian dogs there is a single story of origin, followed by fast transport to Europe, but that is unbelievable. The problem is that there is no archaeological evidence to support this.