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Dingoes Have Evolved from East Asian Dog-Like Ancestor: Study


Dingoes are one of two remaining unadmixed populations of an early East Asian dog lineage, the other being wild dogs from the New Guinea highlands, but connections between these groups have long proved elusive.

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