Student Handout: Artificial Selection and the Evolution of Domestic Dogs
Why did humans start domesticating wolves? Understand how artificial selection led to the evolution of domestic dogs from gray wolves, illustrating human impact on species evolution.
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Topics
- artificial selection
- breed
- domestication
- mutation
- natural selection
- phenotypic plasticity
- phylogenetic tree
- speciation
- whole genome sequencing
- traits
- genetic diversity
- selective breeding
- Canis Lupis
- dog breeds