Domestication

The statement that Charles Darwin made about how the orgin of domesticated animals will remain a major mystery, in a way holds some truth. I mean yeah we have DNA, which answers a lot of the questions that we could think of, it still leaves a lot of room for speculation. Such as if dogs are truly related to wolves why can't the two mate and create pups. And if dogs came from wolves where did wolves come from, or are they the aboriginal species that Darwin speaks of. Moving on from that natural selection had to play some role in the development of dog, but it seems that natural selection would have not favored the domesticated animal, and the genes that were created in favor of the domesticated animal would have been stumped. I mean in order to get a dog you would have to keep crossing the runts of a wolf litter, but it seems to me that nature would not look upon small wolves favorably.