The major premise of the show is that humans would not have progressed from hunting-gatherering to agriculture and villages, absent the herding instincts of the canine. Maintains that only canids could have got those wild goats, sheep et al down from the heights to become domesticated sources of food, milk, hides, etc.

The Russian silver fox experiment discussed above is also extensively covered, starting around 1965 with 30 breeding pairs, selected offspring over 40+ generations for a trait they identified as “tameness.”

The earliest evidence of domestication was the discovery of wolf bones in a human grave site some 13,500 years old. The

Personally I enjoy reading Barry’s comments. You on the other hand choose to characterize him as being childish and stupid for his opposition to using dogs as essentially “suicide bombers.” Thankfully, most Americans don’t share your disgusting view. Perhaps you are a Michael Vick fan and enjoy watching pitbulls fight to the death on weekends? Or maybe your lack of empathy for the defenseless is not limited to animals. Do you also think that children make for good suicide bombers?

I’ll say this for you dweet. You picked the right “sandbox” to belittle Barry in. Don’t you just love the anonymous web? For some reason I suspect you would be a little more respectful in the sandbox of flesh and blood. Or at least you would be if you were smart.

http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enZone=Technology&enDispWho=Articles^l524&enPage=BlankPage

kosherly, too.