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Ishaan comments on Open Thread, May 4 - May 10, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Ishaan 04 May 2015 04:07:33PM 1 point [-]

I agree with your sentiment, but presumably there's even greater variation among wolves than there is among dogs, yet most wolves are pretty similar. The stunning variation among dog breeds is due to variation in selection, not variation in genotype.

Comment author: passive_fist 04 May 2015 08:33:33PM -1 points [-]

I agree with your sentiment, but presumably there's even greater variation among wolves than there is among dogs, yet most wolves are pretty similar.

Perhaps you mean that despite large genetic variation in wolves, there appears to be small phenotypic variation in them. In terms of morphology and appearance this is true, but there's no reason, in my view, to think that it's true in terms of behavior and intelligence and so on.