Is There a Gene for Dog People?

Were you born a dog person? Are there different types of dog people? Why does Ann love smush faced clowns and Lisa high drive predators? Ann and Lisa look at how man's best friendship evolved over thousands of years.

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Coppinger, Raymond and Laura, Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution, Scribner, 2001

Coren, Stanley, The Intelligence of Dogs, Atria Books, 2006.

Coren, Stanley. Why We Love the Dogs We Do. Free Press, 2000. 

The Language and Music of the Wolves, American Museum of Natural, History, vinyl LP, 1971. Narrated by Robert Redford. Available on Spotify.

Larson, Janet Elisabeth, The Versatile Border Collie. Alpine Blue Ribbon Books, 1998, 2010.

McCaig, Donald,  Dog Wars: How the Border Collie Battled the American Kennel Club, Outrun Press 2007.

Miklosi, Adam, Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition, Oxford University Press 2016.

Pollan, Michael,  The Botany of Desire. Random House, 2001.

Robertson, R.B., Of Sheep and Men. Knopf, 1957.

Thurston, Mary Elizabeth, The Lost History of the Canine Race: Our15,00-Year Love Affair with Dogs, Andrews McMeel 1996.

Wilson, Edward O., Biophilia. Harvard University Press, 1986.