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Greater than the sum of its parts | The Economist

Greater than the sum of its parts | The Economist · 3

thenewgreen · 3099 days ago

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Greater than the sum of its parts

The mixing of genes that has created the coywolf has been more rapid, pervasive and transformational than many once thought. Javier Monzón, who worked until recently at Stony Brook University in New York state (he is now at Pepperdine University, in California) studied the genetic make-up of 437 of the animals, in ten north-eastern states plus Ontario. He worked out that, though coyote DNA dominates, a tenth of the average coywolf’s genetic material is dog and a quarter is wolf.|

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user-inactivated · 3099 days ago · link ·

Great read, thenewgreen. This made my day.

Here's the Wikipedia article for a bit more information on them. If you guys also want to read about another modern canine discovery here in the states, check out Carolina Dogs. They were a wild species discovered in the mid 1900s that were brought into domestication.

Edit: There is also a documentary on this animal on Netflix. "Meet the Coywolf." I'm watching it now and it's pretty good so far.