Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History

{{Short description|2008 book by Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford}}

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| name = Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History

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| author = Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford

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| language = English

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| genre = Reference

| publisher = Columbia University Press

| release_date = 2008

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| pages = 232 pp

| isbn = 0-231-13528-9

| dewey= 599.77/2 22

| congress= QL737.C22 W36 2008

| oclc= 185095648

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Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History is a book by Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford. It was published in 2008 by Columbia University Press. The book offers a "holistic picture of canid evolution" and an overview of existing and extinct taxa, also detailing the evidence for the domestication and evolution of domestic dogs from their wolf ancestors.{{cite journal | last1=Lewis | first1=M | title=Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History | journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology | volume=84 | issue=3 | pages=315–316 | date=Sep 2009 | doi=10.1086/644718 | url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/644718?journalCode=qrb& | url-access=subscription }} It has received particular praise for its in-depth coverage of Chinese canids.{{cite journal | last1=Yule | first1=JV | title=Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History by X. Wang and R. H. Tedford | journal=Journal of Mammalogy | volume=90 | issue=2 | pages=525–526 | date=Apr 2009 | doi= 10.1644/08-mamm-r-282.1| url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1644/08-MAMM-R-282.1 | doi-access=free | url-access=subscription }}