Did we not select for the same things in domesticated cats? Because I feel nothing in my soul when I look into a kitty’s eyes.
Over the last 30,000 years of domestication from the grey wolf, dogs have evolved two whole new eye muscles -- the retractor anguli oculi lateralis (RAOL) & levator anguli oculi medialis (RAOM) -- to evoke sympathy & food from humans. Evolution can work pretty fast.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1140795308483514368 …
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Humans and dogs have had a dynamic working relationship for eons. Humans and cats? 1. People start farming and store their grain. 2. Rodents arrive to feast on abundant food. 3. Fuzzy cats arrive to feast on abundant rodents. 4. We let them hang around. 5. They’re still here.pic.twitter.com/uvMbOT2JHQ
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Work from my Portsmouth psychology! https://twitter.com/wallerbridget/status/1140708745401524226 …https://twitter.com/lorraine_hope/status/1100861000339861507?s=21 …
Data suggests dogs with ‘twitchy eyebrows’ (or more specifically, paedomorphic features) get rehomed more quickly;@WallerBridget summarises some of her recent work using#FACS and other measures [dogs ARE great though, Bridget
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That's selective breeding by humans though isn't it? We know that works fast. Different from just evolution.
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As Darwin argued, there's a lot of overlap between natural selection, sexual selection, and artificial selection. All can work very fast.
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In a rare example of inter-species bonding, when dogs make eye contact with their owners, each mammal releases oxytocin or vasopressin, which (among other things) generate paternal/maternal feelings. Cited from book “Behave”. Incredible stuff
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...and in all that time, they couldn't learn to stop eating cat poop, or their own barf? Get with it, pupperz!
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So this series of mutations would of happened prior to our knowledge, then once it became visible we selectively breaded ones with the most dominant trait? Would it of started with one individual as mutations are exceptionally rare?
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