[ExI] nova on dogs

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] nova on dogs

 

Even more so - English Bulldog.  bill w

 

 

Thanks for that Billw.  Classic big dumb sweetheart beast is the English Bulldog.  Loves everybody.  Dumber than a box of rocks, assuming the rocks were carefully pre-selected for dumb.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 12:01 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

I know this. Chihuahuas and Pugs will never forgive us for what we've done to them.

 

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:44 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

Amazing stuff, ja?  That Nova on dogs proposes the theory that dogs descend from wolves who have the same sequence of genes that cause Williams-Beuren syndrome in humans.  If they are right, it explains a lotta lotta.  

 

For so long I wondered if dogs love us for food, or just love us.  I have seen my own dog leave his own treat to come for some lovin from his peoples.  Could he be a wolf with WBS?  I have met a human with that syndrome, and I do see the similarities with a dog’s personality traits.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Subject: nova on dogs

 

 

 

I have been a fan of Nova for most of my life (the TV series.)  I now get it on internet.  

 

The episode on dog domestication whacks it outta the park.  It answers some questions I have wondered about for some time, such as: do dogs love us because we feed them, or do they love us because evolutionary psychology somehow created the brain circuitry for them to love us?

 

spike

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