This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelor with Jessica Pearson Mark Backhoff.

A dog's world is their new presentation of imaginess of thought experiment, imagining

the lives of dogs and world without humans. So we've gone through the home dogs, the

free-ranging dogs and the feral dogs. We've made the transition. We're now in a world

where there's no memory, first generation, second generation, third generation of human

beings, homo sapiens. The dogs are impact behavior. Then they've found a style that suits

them in the niche where they live, desert to forests, to high latitudes and we're dealing

with some truths that we can imagine for the future. And Jessica, one of the things that

was most impressed by is that there is no future dog. There is a universal dog. We've

talked about its characteristics, but I'm keen on its psychology on what it would imagine

the world to be. Does it see itself as a as a as top of the food chain, these dogs hunting

and packs? Because my observation is that wolves are in their environment, certainly dominant.

Will dogs in the future see themselves as dominant, Jessica?

That's a good question. I'm not sure. I think it could go either way. I think my intuitive

answer to your question is dogs are just going to see themselves as a sort of fluid part of

their ecosystem, that they don't have this sense of the sort of meta place in the world, the way we

might imagine them to be. They will just be who they are and do what they need to do to get by.

Mark, I come to you with the wild animal in dogs. It returns, but presumption in your book is

that it doesn't return to the wolf. Is that correct, Mark? Or does it? Is the wolf the design

dog for a wolf without humans? Yeah, we say that they won't go back to being wolves, but yeah,

in many ways, I think it is. I think that's a great question. I mean, they'll live alone,

they'll live in mated pairs or pairs, and they'll live in packs just as wolves do today. They'll

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