[ExI] nova on dogs

[efc at swisscows.email]

And what about the reverse? Have we adapted to love small fluffy things? Is it 
natures way, to protect the children of animals, to make them small and fluffy?

Best regards,
Daniel


On Wed, 20 Sep 2023, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:

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> 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 
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> For so long I wondered if dogs love us for food, or just love us.  I have 
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> from his peoples.  Could he be a wolf with WBS?  I have met a human with that 
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> From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 September, 2023 7:52 AM
> To: 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Cc: spike at rainier66.com
> Subject: nova on dogs
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> I have been a fan of Nova for most of my life (the TV series.)  I now get it 
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> 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?
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