It was such a long standing view that the gray wolf that we know today was around for hundreds of thousands of years and that dogs derived from them. We're very surprised that the're not.
An extinct Late Pleistocene wolf may have been the ancestor of the dog, with the dog's similarity to the extant gray wolf being the result of genetic admixture between the two.
Modern dogs, however, are not descended from the same Canis lineage as modern wolves and instead may be descended from a Pleistocene wolf closer in size to a village dog.
My interest is in the genetic divergence of the dog lineage from a ghost population of Late Pleistocene wolves, and the possibly related "Paleolithic dog". My interest begins with the divergence of the ancestral dog from its wolf-like ancestor, and ends with the discovery of the Bonn–Oberkassel dog dated 14,200 years ago that was found buried along with two humans.
For prodigious work overhauling the very important article Domestication. — SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:24, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
For a doglover a LOLcat, for your work on Dire wolf. AshLin (talk) 03:33, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
A lick from Holly
I read your dog evolution article last week and the wolf one you suggested this week - so impressed that I'm sending over my youngest Springer Spaniel Holly so she can lick your face - go raibh mile maith agut! Xyzspaniel (talk) 23:06, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
A thousand blessings to you too, Xyzspaniel, and for helping to keep the Gaeilge living! - Liam 09:38, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
I think you didn't get enough credit for your hard work on Evolution of the wolf. An exceptional article that left me extremely impressed. You definitely deserve this barnstar for your tireless contributions. Have a good day! Burklemore1 (talk) 06:41, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
history of the dog
Thank you for quality articles such as dire wolf, Beringian wolf and Domestication of animals, for stewardship on articles, for keeping the lessons learned from Corinne, for a clear and enthusiastic user page, for quoting "Raise your words, not your voice", - William, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
Thanks for your effort Ro.faridi (talk) 19:15, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. ) Cullen328Let's discuss it 06:33, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you very very very very much for helping me out so much! Adityavagarwal (talk) 15:18, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
The Canine Barnstar
For tirelessly completing the monumental task of reviewing and reclassifying all of the dog related articles on English Wikipedia (over 3800 of them). Cavalryman (talk) 12:07, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
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^Thalmann, Olaf; Perri, Angela R. (2018). "Paleogenomic Inferences of Dog Domestication". In Lindqvist, C.; Rajora, O. (eds.). Paleogenomics. Population Genomics. Springer, Cham. pp. 273–306. doi:10.1007/13836_2018_27. ISBN978-3-030-04752-8.
^Lord, Kathryn A.; Larson, Greger; Coppinger, Raymond P.; Karlsson, Elinor K. (2020). "The History of Farm Foxes Undermines the Animal Domestication Syndrome". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35 (2): 125–136. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.011. PMID31810775.
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