Dogs Decoded

The Extraordinary Science Behind Man's Best Friend

von Santiago O'Farrill

82 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A dog's nose holds three hundred million scent receptors. Ours holds about six million. That gap is why a dog can catch cancer on a stranger's breath, smell a seizure coming, and track a person across a city days after they passed through.

Dogs Decoded follows the wolf that walked toward a human fire fifteen thousand years ago and stayed. It explains how a wary predator became the only animal on Earth that reads a pointing finger, mourns its dead, and bonds to people through chemistry scientists can now measure in a blood test.

Inside: the Soviet fox experiment that rebuilt domestication in forty years. The "alpha dominance" myth that good science quietly buried. The show-ring fashions that left whole breeds struggling to breathe. What your dog's guilty look really means, and what the animal smells that no machine can.

We bred them, named them, and buried them beside us. This is the book that finally explains them.

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