Bibliograph

A dog in the cave, the wolves who made us human, Kay Frydenborg

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Label

A dog in the cave, the wolves who made us human, Kay Frydenborg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-240) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

1400L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A dog in the cave

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kay Frydenborg

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG+, 9.5, 8, 187724

Sub title

the wolves who made us human

Summary

Explores the connection between dogs and humans from hunter-gatherer partners to modern day pets, focusing on how humans have influenced dogs' evolution and raising new questions about the species' shared future

Table Of Contents

Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Epigraph -- A Boy and His Dog -- 1. Close Encounters of the Canine Kind -- How Many Dogs? -- 2. Written in the Bones -- Before Darwin -- Artificial Selection: Not the Natural Order of Things -- Humans and Wolves: A Complicated Relationship -- 3. Wolf-Dogs: Those Skulls Are How Old? -- Radiocarbon Dating -- The Scientific Method and the Value of What-if -- 4. A Meeting of Minds -- Use it or Lose It? -- The Dog Fancy -- A Wolf Called Romeo -- Peter Pans the Canine Family -- 5. Written in the Genes -- A Window into the Canine Brain -- 6. The Dog on the Couch: Canine Psychologists -- A World of Smells -- 7. A Wolf on the Bed -- Seattle Dog Masters Public Transit -- The Dogs of 9/11 -- Back Matter -- Glossary -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Internet Resources -- Photo Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Back Flap -- Back Cover -- Spine

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