Re: Line breeding vs hybridization

From: Paul Tyerman ptyerman at ozemail.com.au> on 2001.07.02 at 16:33:36(6933) > >You think the white man is the only one who had domestic dogs? Domestic dogs have existed for millennia throughout Eurasia and into the Americas; the ancestors of the Aborigines brought the ancestors of the Dingo to Australia. At the time I answered to my knowledge the Aboriginals did not domesticate dogs, which is why I was querying whether they were teh result of domestication. Having originally asked about this in my comment I've checked into it and they DO, so it is entirely probable that they were the result of early domesticates released in Australia. At the time I wrote I did not realise that the Aboriginals utilised the dingos. Cheers. Paul Tyerman +More Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8 mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Crocus, Cyrtanthus, Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!

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