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Big difference in wild animals and domestic animals.
Domestic animals and selective breeding can vastly out compete environmental factors. You can change domestic animals very quickly. You can change the gene expression of eye color, coat/hair color, hair length, size in one generation. You could selectively breed great danes bigger and bigger in south Tx.
It would take thousands of years to change a wolf from long hair to short hair. or long tail to bob tail just breeding to wolf.....unless you hybridize with dog. Then it would not be a wolf anymore. The coyote basically hybridized the red wolf out of existence.
We have mapped the genome of the domestic dog. With CRISPR genome editing you would be able to express ANY trait you wanted. This will be the future in gentics.
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