African village dogs are genetically much more diverse than modern breeds

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 16:07 in Paleontology & Archaeology

African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral African village dogs.

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