May 4: Quirks goes to the dogs cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A little-known dog lineage with fur so thick it was spun into blankets was selectively bred for millennia by Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest until its rapid demise following European colonization, a study in Science showed Thursday."We found signatures of inbreeding depression, showing that. reproduction was very carefully maintained over a very long period of time," said Lin echoing Native accounts that dog husbandry occurred in isolated enclosures or on coastal islands.
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