HOW THE DOG BECAME THE DOG: From Wolves to Our Best Friends

DERR, Mark

ISBN 10: 1590207009 / ISBN 13: 9781590207000

Published by Overlook Pess / Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., New York , New York, 2011

About this Item

Blue paper-wrapped boards with black spine. Ex-library with check out register on front fly leaf. Several ink stampings on front flyleaf and title page.Otherwise tight, sound and unmarked. 387 pages including index, Dust jacket flaps taped to covers. In mylar and not price-clipped ( $26.95).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HOW THE DOG BECAME THE DOG: From Wolves to Our Best Friends
• Publisher: Overlook Pess / Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., New York , New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590207009
• ISBN 13: 9781590207000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Photo- Illustrated & Map
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail they recognized themselves in each other. Both are highly social, accomplished generalists, and creatures of habit capable of adapting? homebodies who like to wander. How the Dog Became the Dog presents domestication of the dog as a biological and cultural process that began in mutual cooperation and has taken a number of radical turns. At the end of the last Ice Age the first dogs emerged with their humans from refuges against the cold. In the eighteenth century, humans began the drive to exercise full control of dog reproduction, life, and death to complete the domestication of the wolf begun so long ago.

About the Authors

Mark Derr is the author of Dog's Best Friend and A Dog's History of America. As an expert on the subject of dogs, he has appeared regularly on The Charlie Rose Show, and in documentaries for A&E and The Discovery Channel. He writes regularly for Atlantic Monthly, Natural History, Smithsonian and The New York Times. He lives in Miami Beach, Florida.

Mark Derr is the author of Dog's Best Friend and A Dog's History of America. As an expert on the subject of dogs, he has appeared regularly on The Charlie Rose Show, and in documentaries for A&E and The Discovery Channel. He writes regularly for Atlantic Monthly, Natural History, Smithsonian and The New York Times. He lives in Miami Beach, Florida.