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Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker delves at length into the latest theories of how dogs came to be members of our human family.  Dogs, we are now told, by a sequence of scientists and speculators—beginning with the biologists Raymond and Lorna Coppinger, in their 2001 masterwork, “Dogs”—domesticated themselves. They chose us. A marginally calmerContinue reading “How dogs came to be one of the family”