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1. Housecats and the Theory of Domestication

   

   Contributor(s):: Heather Frigiola

   The history of feline-human companionship is not thoroughly understood. Nor is the theory of animal domestication fully agreed upon by scholars. The objective in the present commentary is threefold. The first is to review and critique the theory of animal domestication, favoring an evolutionary...

2. Our debt to the dog : how the domestic dog helped shape human societies

   Contributor(s):: Cummins, Bryan David

3. Organization and expression of canine olfactory receptor genes

   

   | Contributor(s):: Issel-Tarver, L., Rine, J.

   Four members of the canine olfactory receptor gene family were characterized. The predicted proteins shared 40-64% identity with previously identified olfactory receptors. The four subfamilies identified in Southern hybridization experiments had as few as 2 and as many as 20 members. All four...

4. Support for animal rights as a function of belief in evolution, religious fundamentalism, and religious denomination

   

   | Contributor(s):: J. L. DeLeeuw, L. W Galen, C. Aebersold, V. Stanton

   The present study examined the relationship among religious denomination, fundamentalism, belief about human origins, gender, and support for animal rights. Eighty-two college undergraduates filled out a set of 3 questionnaires: The Religious Fundamentalism Scale (Altemeyer & Hunsberger, 2004),...

5. The Canadian harp seal hunt: observations on the effectiveness of procedures to avoid poor animal welfare outcomes

   | Contributor(s):: Daoust, P. Y., Caraguel, C.

6. Antimicrobial resistance, virulence profiles, and phylogenetic groups of fecal Escherichia coli isolates: a comparative analysis between dogs and their owners in Japan

   | Contributor(s):: Harada, K., Okada, E., Shimizu, T., Kataoka, Y., Sawada, T., Takahashi, T.

7. A view to a death in the morning : hunting and nature through history

   | Contributor(s):: Cartmill, Matt

8. Created from animals : the moral implications of Darwinism

   | Contributor(s):: Rachels, James

9. In search of human nature : the decline and revival of Darwinism in American social thought

   | Contributor(s):: Degler, Carl N.

10. Kinship to mastery : biophilia in human evolution and development

    | Contributor(s):: Kellert, Stephen R.

11. The animal connection : a new perspective on what makes us human

    | Contributor(s):: Shipman, Pat

12. "Something of interest about ourselves": Natural history and the evolutionary hierarchy at Taronga Zoological Park

    | Contributor(s):: Lloyd, N.

13. Birdsong and the Image of Evolution

    | Contributor(s):: Mundy, R.

14. Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: How mental simulations serve the animal

    | Contributor(s):: Baumeister, Roy F., Masicampo, E. J.

15. Correction to Baumeister and Masicampo (2010)

    | Contributor(s):: Baumeister, Roy F., Masicampo, E. J.

16. Differential sensitivity to human communication in dogs, wolves, and human infants

    | Contributor(s):: Topál, József, Gergely, György, Erd?hegyi, Ágnes, Csibra, Gergely, Miklósi, Ádám

17. Evolutionary approach to communication between humans and dogs

    | Contributor(s):: Miklosi, A.

18. Like infant, like dog

    | Contributor(s):: Tomasello, Michael, Kaminski, Juliane

19. Paradoxes, discrepancies, and weirdnesses in our treatment of animals

    | Contributor(s):: Baenninger, Ronald

20. Support for Animal Intelligence Requires Evidence, Not Just Argument

    | Contributor(s):: Zentall, Thomas