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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: DMaA who wrote (25002)7/20/2000 3:12:23 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
How can it be said that dogs and wolves have split genetically when the two can interbreed?
As I have maintained earlier, species via sexual gene cross checking and digital reproduction of the DNA sequences tend to be very stable. This can allow for populations which have not bred together for vast stretches of time to still be fertile, so long as they were not under selection pressures that pulled them strongly in different niches. There have probably been re-introduction of wild wolf genes into the dog family on a reasonably frequent basis (by putting baby wolves with mother dogs).
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