Dog domestication saddled man's best friend with defective genes, study says
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 12:15
in Psychology & Sociology
Dogs may be man’s best friend, but the humans who created them through generations of breeding have saddled them with an excess of detrimental DNA, according to a new study. For instance, the people who bred poodles to have black coats left many of these dogs with extra copies of a gene called ...