Title: Origins Science Scholars Program "On the Origins of Dogs: Barking up the Evolutionary Tree" Speaker: Patricia Princehouse, PhD Location: campus, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Date: May 8, 2012
That woman in the first question..... They got aggressive foxes after the domestic version by breeding together the least friendly of the gentle offspring. They managed to develop a group more aggressive and distrustful of humans than the actual wild foxes.
What's with the random cuts to audience members? Who edits like this? Everyone looks soooo bored, there's even one of a woman basically falling asleep lol
They are trying to eliminate the the merle coat in cockers as it brings a number health issues with it including cataracts. I've had a couple with the coat over the years.
I have a question for Dr. Princehouse... What are your thoughts on relation of Aggressiveness and Gameness? I have American Pit Bull Terriers and they have a decent amount of gameness in the field but still show little to no aggression when it comes to humans other than a barking fit. I know that these two traits are very different and usually don't come in the same dog, or at least mine. If one acts very aggressive I eliminate it; as in my experience they tend not to be game.
I can think of a way to test whether dogs understand emotion. Take 2 litters of newborn puppies in separate enclosed environments. One group has no interaction with humans. The other, interaction with humans who are loving and kind. Then observe behavior. Any differences may be attributed to the interaction.
***** Hey Gaddy, Do you mind pointing out things you remember disagreeing with? I got the feeling that either she was a lil myopic or generalizing, I'm curious.
Dr. Princehouse is clearly well-informed, but this lecture is 10 years old. She also revealed biases not really appropriate for a scientist with her over-proud, supercilious, preference for the Great Pyrenees dogs that she personally breeds (and promotes). This was a mistake, understandable for the time, but it calls into question some of her disdain for and answers to questions about, mixed breed dogs. On the whole, I think she had the archeology, morphology, co-evolution, domestication theories, and genetics correct, as they were understood in 2012. But much more information has become available since then, so this lecture is dated.
Wonderful lecture. However. brachiocephalic dogs are at a disadvantage, not as healthy as other breeds. And absolutely bulldogs are extremely unhealthy. All bulldogs are birthed via C-section. So she was really wrong on that point. It’s not only animal activist who believe this….
zaimah Begum-Diamond Her point that irresponsible breeding creates issues wasn't wrong. And all too often, the animals from mills and backyard breeders end up in shelters. You're talking about the opposite end of the spectrum she used as an example. There is a middle ground that's being ignored.
Patricia Princehouse teaches Evolutionary Biology, and the History & Philosophy of Science at Case Western Reserve University, where she is co-director of the College Scholars Program, and has won many teaching awards. She earned a Masters in Biological Anthropology from Yale, and her PhD at Harvard University, working with Everett Mendelsohn, Richard Lewontin, and Stephen Jay Gould so basicaly she know a lot more than many of "dude professors" know
