Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution - Rilegato

Coppinger, Raymond; Coppinger, Lorna

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0684855305 ISBN 13: 9780684855301

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2001

Riassunto

Two leading "canine ethologists" probe the enduring nature vs. nurture debate in the doggy social order, tracing once and for all the origins of canine intelligence.

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Dr. James D. Watson winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine and author of The Double Helix Ray and Lorna Coppinger's Dogs should forever change the way we look at humans' "best friends." Both dog owners and those who want to be will profit by their description of how genes and environmental signals make the dog very much not a wolf.

Dr. Michael W. Fox veterinarian, ethologist, and author of Understanding Your Dog and Beyond Evolution I am glad to see two biologists applying sound science to advance our understanding of the origins of the dog, the ways of working dogs, and how humans have influenced dogs' evolution, development, and behavior. Thanks to the authors' professional eye, we have some new insights and a clearer appreciation of what makes dogs, dogs. Anyone with a dog should not be without this book.

Dr. Richard W. Wrangham professor of anthropology, Harvard University Forget being the alphawolf. Dogs teaches old dog lovers new tricks. For thousands of years after dogs stopped being wolves, and before they became pets, they were something else -- a self-domesticated species with a mind of their own. The Coppingers' convincing new theory of dog evolution will be as interesting for archaeologists as for breeders and pet owners.

Dr. Erich Klinghammer Director, Eckhard H. Hess Insitute of Ethology and Director, Wolf Park Everyone interested in dogs and evolution will find this book a challenge to long-held views....This is probably the most important book about dogs ever written.

L'autore:

Raymond Coppinger is professor of biology at Hampshire College and the author ofFishing Dogs. A former sled dog racing champion, he now lectures widely about dogs.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0684855305
• ISBN 13: 9780684855301
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352