▶ Your Answer :In the reading passage, there is ample support for the author's claim that how, when and where dogs become domesticated. However, the professor in the lecture gives several reasons as a rebuttal to the author's point. First, the professor argues that dogs are not evolved from the wolves. Since, in old time, people installd traps to hunt. But if the wolves were with them, they can prevent hunting because they could be attacked by the traps. For other reasons, wolves are very aggressive so it is hard to tame them. This casts doubt on the reading passge's claim that dogs are rooted from the wolves. Second, the professor contends the latest sutdy found trace of the dog which is assumed eariler than the 16000 years ago. They discoverd the footprints of the young boy and the dog togehter. This refutes the reading passage's assertion that dogs would have been domesticated about 16000 years ago. Finally, the professor suggests that the root of the dog has root mutiple places. For example, in the Europe, Middle East and the North America people are able to unearth the bone of dogs. It explains dogs have different ancestors in the respective reigons. This counters the reading passage's clain that dogs were raised in China and then dispersed other countries. |