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Today's episode is from a Wikipedia article titled Dog.

The dog is a domesticated descendant of the wolf,

also called the domestic dog, it is derived from extinct gray wolves, and the gray wolf is the dog's closest living relative.

The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans.

Experts estimate that hunter-gatherers domesticated dogs more than 15,000 years ago

in Oberkastel-Bahn, which was before the development of agriculture.

Due to their long association with humans, dogs have expanded to a large number of domestic

individuals and gain the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet that

would be inadequate for other canids.

A dog has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.

Dog breeds vary widely in shape, size, and color. They perform many roles for humans such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection,

assisting police in the military, companionship, therapy, and aiding disabled people.

Over the millennia, dogs became uniquely adapted to human behavior

and the human canine bond has been a topic of frequent study.

This influence on human society has given them the

sober kay of man's best friend. In 1758 the Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus published in his

systema naturae the two-word naming of species binomial nomenclature.

Canis is the Latin word meaning dog,

and under this genus he listed the domestic dog, the wolf and the golden jackal.

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