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Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs

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The Evolution of Dogs

A century earlier, you have Lewis and Clark come on to the Great Plains. And they're finding nomadic bison hunters with huge packs of dogs. These things look nothing alike. How was all that happening? I mean, because they're not buying dogs from Europe. No, where dogs go, people go. So anywhere people went in America, as dogs are going, right? Eventually these groups of dogs breed only with each other. And eventually you get independent lineages of dogs that are very different.

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