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The Skeptics Guide #887 - Jul 9 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Evolution of the Wolf

When did the progenitor species become extinct? So tought the original wolf. It could be that there's some remnants of that population still in around wolves to day, and it's just homogenized across the entire globe. But, but, but the present day wolf populations are, there's nothing likethat that progenitor around any more,. And, you know, this is one of the really interesting things t at we found about the wolf evolution as well. Over a hundred thousand years they were able, too, to spread their genes across their entire distributionreally, really quickly.

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