How repeatedly mating the same domesticated wolves gave us all these different dog breeds?
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Breeding dogs with dogs for traits gave us all of our numerous dog breeds.
Domesticating wolves gave us our first dogs.
How did that happen? We don’t actually know. In fact it might’ve happened more than once in different parts of the world.
What we do know is if you selectively breed for traits like friendliness, being docile, etc. you produce more youthful, puppy-looking animals over time. This has been done with experiments with foxes over decades.
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