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  1. Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 03:25:10 JST Flipboard Science Desk Flipboard Science Desk

    A team of animal science specialists at Teikyo University of Science has found that most dogs have an eye color that is darker than their closet wolf relative, suggesting that darker eye color has evolved due to domestication, Phys.org reports:
    https://phys.org/news/2023-12-domestication-dogs-darker-irises.html

    #evolution #dogs #domestication

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    1. Study suggests domestication of dogs led to darker irises
      A team of animal science specialists at Teikyo University of Science, working with a colleague from Showa University, all in Japan, has found that most dogs have an eye color that is darker than their closet wolf relative, suggesting that darker eye color has evolved due to domestication. In their study, reported in the journal Royal Science Open Science, the group compared the eye color of multiple wolves and dogs.

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