How the Dog Became the Dog
From Wolves to Our Best Friends

This is a dog. He is the most popular dog in the world. Why? Because if you google Dog he is the first one that comes up in the image search. This book is about him and his ancestors. I thought this book would be kind of interesting. Instead it kind of sucks. A slogging and tedious read filled with a......more

Oh boy, where should I start. This is a very hard book to rate. I find the topic interesting and can see that the author knows a lot about it. But at the same time the book is very hard to read. And not even because of the hard topi but because it is so incredibly disorganized. It jumps all over the......more

DNF because I had to return it. It is very informative and Derr clearly knows his stuff really well. But the book needs to go through an editor. There are lots of rambling, awkward sentences with too many points stuffed in them, and a lot of information is repeated within a few paragraphs or chapter......more

We owe much to our faithful companions. Unfortunately, as is often the case with humans, we do not pay back friendship well. We get much more from the dog than they get from us. This marvelous book chronicles the self domestication of they dog through the fossil and genetic records and describes how......more

The author writes about how the dog socialized with humans instead of being domesticated. A history of canine-human interaction is documented in this unique view.......more