Re: 1st Season New Amsterdam - The Golden Boy - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

In article <fr5gm7$i3b$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 MDuPree@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Micky DuPree) wrote:

> "Joetheone" <joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
> : Somebody had to catch a wolf and tame it to start the whole thing 
> : rolling.
> 
> I favor the hypothesis that early domestication involved raising stolen 
> or orphaned wolf cubs.  The ones that took to it were kept.  The ones 
> that didn't were killed.

Depends on whose theory you like to believe.  I read a very convincing 
book that posited dog ancestors were the ones who scavenged human refuse 
and hung around longer when said humans approached, gradually developing 
into companions.

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Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is 
that reason doesn't count.     --Isaac Asimov

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