Post by djoser-xyyman on Dec 14, 2017 14:20:14 GMT -5
Nature or Nurture - Now Gray Wolves are African in origin - racist wolves
I know I am sounding like a broken record. "African this and African that". But I am only reporting what I read as I come across these papers.
Several points to this paper and the other one I will reference later
1. The domestication of the Dog came from the Gray Wolf thousands of years ago.
2. We were thought by modern Europeans that the Grey wolf only existed in Eurasia"
3. The Africa version of the wolf is the Golden Jackal...a Jackal
4. Now DNA have changed all that and the research has now shown that just like African/European Elephants and African/Chinese Donkeys the topology has to be re-written.
5. Yes, DNA is making liars of historians and ...Zoologist
6. Apparently the African golden Jackal regardless of phenotypic similarities can be divided into two distinct species. One of which is the Grey wolf which is found as far as West Africa!
7. So what really happened in Africa 60,000years ago? The data suggest all domestication of animals took place in Africa.
Two distinct species that look the same because of Nature or Nurture? Convergent evolution. One Gray wolf and the other Jackal. So when I say Europeans are depigmented Africans...well. Am I right or am I right? Lol!
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Reviving the African Wolf Canis lupus lupaster in North and West Africa: A Mitochondrial Lineage Ranging More than 6,000 km Wide -Philippe Gaubert et al
The gray wolf (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758) is one of the most emblematic, extant mammalian species: once the most widely
distributed mammal–encompassing a Holarctic and Indian subcontinent distribution [1], it was domesticated to become
‘‘Man’s best friend’’, the dog [2]. Nevertheless, the general
...which were most likely not involved in dog domestication. The gray wolf is generally not considered to occur in Africa
(reaching the Sinai Peninsula, northeastern Egypt; [3]), where it is ecologically ‘replaced’ by the golden jackal (Canis aureus Linnaeus,
1758), which itself ranges from the northern half of Africa to southeastern Europe and Asia.
On these morphological grounds, Ferguson [9] proposed to consider lupaster as a subspecies of gray
wolf, with a distribution restricted to Egypt and Libya. Supporting this view, two ***recent*** studies detected a divergent mitochondrial
lineage of gray wolf in northern Egypt and Ethiopia [13,14] that was eventually designated as the African wolf C. lupus lupaster [13].
Wolves (from Ethiopia) were larger–but slender-looking–than the usual golden jackal phenotype, expanding the gray wolf’s range
more than 2500 km south-east into the African continent. The discovery of a distinct lineage endemic to Africa of such
This discovery also raises a series of overlapping questions. First, how could a gray wolf lineage have
passed undetected in Africa until recently? And how long and how far has it been ranging the continent? Feeding the debate, large
forms of ‘jackals’ comparable to lupaster have been reported from the Middle to Late Pleistocene of Morocco [17]. Second, how can
the African phenotype of the gray wolf be defined? In other words, is there a clear phenotypic distinction between the gray wolf and
the golden jackal, the latter also showing a wide spectrum of morphological and ecological variations throughout its distribution
[18]? And third, does the gray wolf’s African phenotype reflect adaptation to specific environmental conditions or rather result
from potential hybridization with the golden jackal?
In this study, we analyzed the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity of a series of African Canis including wolf-like animals
from North and West Africa (Fig. 1), to respond to the following questions: (i) is C. lupus lupaster confined to Egypt and Ethiopia?, (ii)
does it constitute an ancient African lineage or a recent spread into the continent?, and (iii) does hybridization between the African
wolf and the golden jackal occur? Our results suggest that (i) the distribution of the African wolf** also includes North and West
Africa,** expanding its range 6,000 km to the west; (ii) C. l. lupaster is a distinct, relatively ancient and genetically** highly diversified**
lineage of ***gray wolf endemic ***to Africa; and (iii) hybridization between the former and C. aureus may occur in West Africa,
although the ‘golden jackal’ entity needs to be reassessed further.
Thus, our results expand the distribution of the African wolf in North and West Africa, more than 6,000 km west from its previously
determined range in North-East Africa [9,13] (Fig. 1). THIS CONTRADICTS THE CRANIOMETRIC ANALYSES OF Krystufek & Tcrtkovic
[12], whom found that ‘lupaster’ from Egypt and Sudan constituted a separated morphological class from golden jackals ranging in
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Man talk about demented people! Racism down to the dogs... wolves.!!!
I know I am sounding like a broken record. "African this and African that". But I am only reporting what I read as I come across these papers.
Several points to this paper and the other one I will reference later
1. The domestication of the Dog came from the Gray Wolf thousands of years ago.
2. We were thought by modern Europeans that the Grey wolf only existed in Eurasia"
3. The Africa version of the wolf is the Golden Jackal...a Jackal
4. Now DNA have changed all that and the research has now shown that just like African/European Elephants and African/Chinese Donkeys the topology has to be re-written.
5. Yes, DNA is making liars of historians and ...Zoologist
6. Apparently the African golden Jackal regardless of phenotypic similarities can be divided into two distinct species. One of which is the Grey wolf which is found as far as West Africa!
7. So what really happened in Africa 60,000years ago? The data suggest all domestication of animals took place in Africa.
Two distinct species that look the same because of Nature or Nurture? Convergent evolution. One Gray wolf and the other Jackal. So when I say Europeans are depigmented Africans...well. Am I right or am I right? Lol!
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Reviving the African Wolf Canis lupus lupaster in North and West Africa: A Mitochondrial Lineage Ranging More than 6,000 km Wide -Philippe Gaubert et al
The gray wolf (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758) is one of the most emblematic, extant mammalian species: once the most widely
distributed mammal–encompassing a Holarctic and Indian subcontinent distribution [1], it was domesticated to become
‘‘Man’s best friend’’, the dog [2]. Nevertheless, the general
...which were most likely not involved in dog domestication. The gray wolf is generally not considered to occur in Africa
(reaching the Sinai Peninsula, northeastern Egypt; [3]), where it is ecologically ‘replaced’ by the golden jackal (Canis aureus Linnaeus,
1758), which itself ranges from the northern half of Africa to southeastern Europe and Asia.
On these morphological grounds, Ferguson [9] proposed to consider lupaster as a subspecies of gray
wolf, with a distribution restricted to Egypt and Libya. Supporting this view, two ***recent*** studies detected a divergent mitochondrial
lineage of gray wolf in northern Egypt and Ethiopia [13,14] that was eventually designated as the African wolf C. lupus lupaster [13].
Wolves (from Ethiopia) were larger–but slender-looking–than the usual golden jackal phenotype, expanding the gray wolf’s range
more than 2500 km south-east into the African continent. The discovery of a distinct lineage endemic to Africa of such
This discovery also raises a series of overlapping questions. First, how could a gray wolf lineage have
passed undetected in Africa until recently? And how long and how far has it been ranging the continent? Feeding the debate, large
forms of ‘jackals’ comparable to lupaster have been reported from the Middle to Late Pleistocene of Morocco [17]. Second, how can
the African phenotype of the gray wolf be defined? In other words, is there a clear phenotypic distinction between the gray wolf and
the golden jackal, the latter also showing a wide spectrum of morphological and ecological variations throughout its distribution
[18]? And third, does the gray wolf’s African phenotype reflect adaptation to specific environmental conditions or rather result
from potential hybridization with the golden jackal?
In this study, we analyzed the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity of a series of African Canis including wolf-like animals
from North and West Africa (Fig. 1), to respond to the following questions: (i) is C. lupus lupaster confined to Egypt and Ethiopia?, (ii)
does it constitute an ancient African lineage or a recent spread into the continent?, and (iii) does hybridization between the African
wolf and the golden jackal occur? Our results suggest that (i) the distribution of the African wolf** also includes North and West
Africa,** expanding its range 6,000 km to the west; (ii) C. l. lupaster is a distinct, relatively ancient and genetically** highly diversified**
lineage of ***gray wolf endemic ***to Africa; and (iii) hybridization between the former and C. aureus may occur in West Africa,
although the ‘golden jackal’ entity needs to be reassessed further.
Thus, our results expand the distribution of the African wolf in North and West Africa, more than 6,000 km west from its previously
determined range in North-East Africa [9,13] (Fig. 1). THIS CONTRADICTS THE CRANIOMETRIC ANALYSES OF Krystufek & Tcrtkovic
[12], whom found that ‘lupaster’ from Egypt and Sudan constituted a separated morphological class from golden jackals ranging in
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Man talk about demented people! Racism down to the dogs... wolves.!!!