Evolution of the wolf | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 10/05/2019

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00:01:14 1 Fossil record
00:04:54 1.1 iCanis lepophagus/i
00:06:08 1.2 iCanis priscolatrans/i
00:07:52 1.3 iCanis ambrusteri/i
00:08:44 1.4 iCanis dirus/i
00:10:55 1.4.1 idirus–lupus/i hybrids
00:12:50 1.5 iCanis mosbachensis/i
00:13:45 1.6 iCanis variabilis/i
00:14:30 1.7 iCanis chihliensis/i
00:17:11 1.8 iCanis lupus/i
00:19:09 1.9 iCanis c.f. familiaris/i (Paleolithic "dog")
00:20:20 1.10 iCanis lupus familiaris/i (domestic dog)
00:29:39 2 Genetic record
00:29:48 2.1 DNA sequences
00:31:52 2.1.1 Marker issue
00:33:14 2.1.2 Timing issue
00:35:22 2.2 Wolf-like canids
00:38:58 2.2.1 Admixture with an extinct unknown canid
00:40:41 2.3 Two wolf haplogroups
00:45:51 2.3.1 Dissenting view
00:49:03 2.4 Into America and Japan
00:55:08 2.5 Divergence with the coyote
00:56:42 2.6 Domestic dog
01:02:57 2.6.1 Dingo
01:03:35 2.7 Taimyr wolf
01:08:23 2.8 iCanis variabilis/i
01:11:12 3 Rise to dominant predator
01:12:24 4 Wolf population differences
01:14:15 4.1 Ecotypes
01:19:22 4.2 Pleistocene wolves



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The evolution of the wolf occurred over a geologic time scale of at least 300 thousand years. 
The grey wolf Canis lupus is a highly adaptable species that is able to exist in a range of environments and which possesses a wide distribution across the Holarctic. Studies of modern grey wolves have identified distinct sub-populations that live in close proximity to each other. This variation in sub-populations is closely linked to differences in habitat – precipitation, temperature, vegetation, and prey specialization – which affect cranio-dental plasticity.The archaeological and paleontological records show grey wolf continuous presence for at least the last 300,000 years. This continuous presence contrasts with genomic analyses, which suggest that all modern wolves and dogs descend from a common ancestral wolf population that existed as recently as 20,000 years ago. These analyses indicate a population bottleneck, followed by a rapid radiation from an ancestral population at a time during, or just after, the Last Glacial Maximum. However, the geographic origin of this radiation is not known.