Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History (Hardcover) by Xiaoming Wang, Richard Tedford

from echaika

Beware! This is not "a breezy and highly engaging romp through the rich history of the Canidae." It is a difficult discussion of the millions of years of evolution that first produced a primitive canid from early carnivores. From this first canid, came a highly diverse number of species, most now...

from JNSelko

As complete as the current state of knowledge on the subject. My only quibble: I wish there were drawings comparing the larger species with humans!

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Even with the best intentions in the world it's hard to make paleozoology a crisp and understandable topic, but the authors do hit their marks, with an assist from Mauricio Anton's fine artistic conceptions. Perhaps the most interesting part to me was not the portions dealing with dogs as we know...

from echaika

Beware! This is not "a breezy and highly engaging romp through the rich history of the Canidae." It is a difficult discussion of the millions of years of evolution that first produced a primitive canid from early carnivores. From this first canid, came a highly diverse number of species, most now...

from JNSelko

As complete as the current state of knowledge on the subject. My only quibble: I wish there were drawings comparing the larger species with humans!