他的计划之一是要探索狗与狼之间相似性的谜题，并弄清这种相似性所产生的误导，尤其是在过去几百年间对狗的驯化方面。
Part of his agenda is to explode the many myths about the closeness of dogs to wolves and the mistakes that this has led to, especially in the training of dogs over the past century or so.
事实上，狗在对待人类和其他同类的狗时表现出的温善和蔼与狼对待其他群属里的动物时表现出的谨慎敌视形成了鲜明的对比。
Indeed, the outgoing affability of most dogs towards humans and other dogs is in sharp contrast to the mix of fear and aggression with which wolves react to animals from other packs.
有的科学家认为，驯化过程中取得的最大成效就是我们培养了狗的这种注意力，这也是狼与狗最明显的区别之所在。
That attentiveness was one of the big effects of domestication, some scientists have argued, and a clear difference between the two species.
狗和狼之间的那一刻：冒险、直觉和繁荣与萧条的生物学。由约翰·科茨。
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust. By John Coates.
东半球夜间活动的犬科哺乳动物，与狗近缘；与狼形似；有时成群捕食但通常是单个或成对活动。
Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair.
没有单一化石能证明狗是由狼演化而来，但是考古学、形态学、遗传与行为的“化石”汇集起来，显示所有狗的共祖就是东亚狼。
No single fossil proves that dogs came from wolves, but archaeological, morphological, genetic and behavioral "fossils" converge to reveal the ancestor of all dogs to be the East Asian Wolf.
经过几个世纪的选择性育种，狗已经产生与狼一样奇异的变形了。
Over the centuries selective breeding has pulled at the canine body shape to produce what is often a grotesque distortion of the underlying Wolf.
经过几个世纪的选择性育种，狗已经产生与狼一样奇异的变形了。
Over the centuries selective breeding has pulled at the canine body shape to produce what is often a grotesque distortion of the underlying Wolf.
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