Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa

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likes: innovative tech, islands, ideas & insights. Research Associate at VIU & Smithsonian, researches Coast Salish textiles. Dabbles in writing.
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Website:HTTPS://lizhk.ca
Recent writing:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi6549
Recent writing:https://thebcreview.ca/2022/07/01/1510-hammond-kaarremaa-dempsey-bob/
@ArchaeoIain PS re: New Guinea Singing Dogs…. I corresponded with Desmond Morris recently and he told me a funny story about a famous conductor who had been given a pair of NG singing dogs and hence donated them to the London Zoo where Morris was director. Morris's friend Spike Milligan came to hear them sing. He listened carefully and declared that their Bach was worse than their Bitehoven!
@ArchaeoIain yes, as you saw. I find it curious that the PNG singing dog and apparently, the Coast Salish Woolly dogs had different 'voices' from European and modern dogs. I wonder if this points to more ancient DNA and what other ancient dogs had more of a yap or howl than a bark?
I have been immersed in doggie evolution lately and just read a good article The Evolution of Modern Dogs. Check it out https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-evolution-of-modern-dogs
#dogs #dogevolution
The Evolution of Modern Dogs

How our canine companions were carefully crafted by quirky, bored aristocrats, the self-proclaimed "doggy people" from Victorian Britain—and why their story can help us understand social change.

The Garden of Forking Paths