The Chinese Wolf, Ancestor of New World Dogs
- 5 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 197 (4303) , 533-535
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.197.4303.533
Abstract
Canid remains found in close association with Homo erectus pekinensis (Peking Man) was described as Canis sp., later renamed C. lupus variabilis and C. sinensis and finally given back the original designation Canis sp. in 1972. In China, as in North America there is a definite temporal hiatus between the earliest known Canis and those designated C. familiaris. One morphological feature diagnostic of domestic dogs is present in the mandible of modern Chinese wolves, C. lupus chanco, i.e., the turned back apex of the coronoid process of the ascending ramus. This feature is discussed in relation to diet and from an evolutionary point of view.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Early Domestic Dogs in North America and Their OriginsJournal of Field Archaeology, 1974