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Originally Posted by Las Vegas Larry
Take a pair of pure bull mastiffs and produce mini dachshunds. I'll give you 7000 generations and guarantee it won't happen. There would have to be genetic diversity from interbreeding and you don't have this with just one pair of wolves.
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Well, lets see...
Even scientists say that dogs have only been around for 15,000 years. Have you ever watched that show on the History Channel (or is it Discovery) where they say that all dogs came about from wolves?
According to them, dogs came from wolves who ate from the human garbage pile. The ones that didn't run away when humans approached bred with the others like them. This made a species of less skittish wolves. Eventually (over a couple of generations) they became friendly.
Scientists says this happened about 15,000 years ago. Not millions or billions of years ago.
We say it happened about 4,000 years ago. Which (according to scientists) is not even worth noting on the geologic/evolutionary scale.
As for taking 2 bullmastiffs, if you bred it, and then took the runts of the litter, then bred them, it eventually would turn into a different dog, and it wouldn't take 7000 generations, it'd take about 4 (of breeding runts) before you wouldn't recognize it to it's great great grandfather.
YIC
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