{"id":99,"date":"2008-06-24T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-06-24T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T16:30:14","slug":"things-not-known-in-the-1860s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Things not known in the 1860s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it fascinating that things part of common knowledge today were discovered relatively recently.  Here is something not known in the 1860s, from Darwin&#8217;s <em>Origin of the Species<\/em>, p 29-30:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I do not believe, as we shall presently see, that all our dogs have descended from any one wild species; but, in the case of some other domestic races, there is presumptive, or even strong, evidence in favour of this view.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe whole subject must, I think, remain vague; nevertheless, I may, without here entering on any details, state that, from geographical and other considerations, I think it highly probable that our domestic dogs have descended from several wild species.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We now know that all dog breeds are descended from wolves through a domestication event or several closely spaced domestication events about 100,000 years ago.  This explains why dogs are found with aboriginal human groups throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>This is from a section describing how in most domesticated animals have many breeds or varieties yet are descended from a single wild species.  In the 1860s, the the evidence pointed to more than one wild ancestor for dogs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it fascinating that things part of common knowledge today were discovered relatively recently. Here is something not known in the 1860s, from Darwin&#8217;s Origin of the Species, p 29-30: I do not believe, as we shall presently see, that all our dogs have descended from any one wild species; but, in the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}