The Truth About Dogs: The Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental Habits and Moral Fibre of Canis familiaris

by StephenBudiansky (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $8.69

  This text offers an iconoclastic reassessment of accepted ideas about canine intelligence and emotions. The author draws upon recent psychological and neuroscience research to show how the apparent intelligence differences between dog breeds are to do with temperament and training.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.63

  Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we need to stop interpreting their behaviour in the human terms of loyalty and betrayal. The truth is far more complex and surprising. The Dog Genome Project is currently laying the groundwork for identifying the genetic basis of why our dogs behave in the way they do. Other research investigates canine intelligence, and some remarkable experiments reveal what dogs can and cannot see. Budiansky brings together the disciplines of behavioural science, genetics, neuroscience and archaeology to show us how wrong we have been about man's best friend.