Dr. David Gwynn

We actually call it a quick wave where, you know, small groups are just scattering and And then one of the other things that we found, and I can't remember if we talked about this or not, but it's just such a cool finding. I have to repeat it.

We actually call it a quick wave where, you know, small groups are just scattering and And then one of the other things that we found, and I can't remember if we talked about this or not, but it's just such a cool finding. I have to repeat it.

We actually call it a quick wave where, you know, small groups are just scattering and And then one of the other things that we found, and I can't remember if we talked about this or not, but it's just such a cool finding. I have to repeat it.

If we didn't, they took their dogs with them. One of the studies that we did, and this is work with my friend and colleague Gregor Larson at Oxford. Gregor's a specialist on ancient dog DNA, and he had a student and colleague, Angela Perry, also a specialist in dogs.

If we didn't, they took their dogs with them. One of the studies that we did, and this is work with my friend and colleague Gregor Larson at Oxford. Gregor's a specialist on ancient dog DNA, and he had a student and colleague, Angela Perry, also a specialist in dogs.

If we didn't, they took their dogs with them. One of the studies that we did, and this is work with my friend and colleague Gregor Larson at Oxford. Gregor's a specialist on ancient dog DNA, and he had a student and colleague, Angela Perry, also a specialist in dogs.

Yeah, fantastic episode. Oh, fantastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was talking with Gregor and Angela one day about their dates on dog dispersal based on dog DNA. Okay. And as I was listening to them, I was thinking, hmm, those sound a lot like the human dates that we have. And then it dawned on me, I can be really slow about this sort of thing.

Yeah, fantastic episode. Oh, fantastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was talking with Gregor and Angela one day about their dates on dog dispersal based on dog DNA. Okay. And as I was listening to them, I was thinking, hmm, those sound a lot like the human dates that we have. And then it dawned on me, I can be really slow about this sort of thing.

Yeah, fantastic episode. Oh, fantastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was talking with Gregor and Angela one day about their dates on dog dispersal based on dog DNA. Okay. And as I was listening to them, I was thinking, hmm, those sound a lot like the human dates that we have. And then it dawned on me, I can be really slow about this sort of thing.

It dawned on me, dogs are not going to colonize or move into the Americas by themselves. right? They must have come with people. So as people are moving through the hemisphere and splitting off and radiating out, of course, their dogs are going to have a similar kind of pattern because the dogs are going with people. People can go without dogs, but dogs don't go without people.

It dawned on me, dogs are not going to colonize or move into the Americas by themselves. right? They must have come with people. So as people are moving through the hemisphere and splitting off and radiating out, of course, their dogs are going to have a similar kind of pattern because the dogs are going with people. People can go without dogs, but dogs don't go without people.

It dawned on me, dogs are not going to colonize or move into the Americas by themselves. right? They must have come with people. So as people are moving through the hemisphere and splitting off and radiating out, of course, their dogs are going to have a similar kind of pattern because the dogs are going with people. People can go without dogs, but dogs don't go without people.

And so we published this paper and it was just a lot of fun to work on, to be sure, because we had these two very independent sets of evidence, which very nicely tracked one another for obvious reasons.

And so we published this paper and it was just a lot of fun to work on, to be sure, because we had these two very independent sets of evidence, which very nicely tracked one another for obvious reasons.

And so we published this paper and it was just a lot of fun to work on, to be sure, because we had these two very independent sets of evidence, which very nicely tracked one another for obvious reasons.

Well, formidable ones would be the answer. You have everything from Brachyprotoma obtusata, which is the short-faced skunk. And there will be a quiz afterwards on the genus and species names for all of your listeners. There was the spectacled bear. There was the giant short-faced bear. There was a saber-toothed cat. There was a scimitar cat. There was an American cheetah.

Well, formidable ones would be the answer. You have everything from Brachyprotoma obtusata, which is the short-faced skunk. And there will be a quiz afterwards on the genus and species names for all of your listeners. There was the spectacled bear. There was the giant short-faced bear. There was a saber-toothed cat. There was a scimitar cat. There was an American cheetah.

Well, formidable ones would be the answer. You have everything from Brachyprotoma obtusata, which is the short-faced skunk. And there will be a quiz afterwards on the genus and species names for all of your listeners. There was the spectacled bear. There was the giant short-faced bear. There was a saber-toothed cat. There was a scimitar cat. There was an American cheetah.

These are all distinct genera. And then there were species such as the dire wolf and the American lion, Panthera leo. And I have to give one more scientific name for the saber-toothed cat just because it's so cool. The saber-toothed cat's name was Smilodon fatalis, which is kind of a mashup of Greek and Latin. which basically means roughly deadly knife-toothed.

These are all distinct genera. And then there were species such as the dire wolf and the American lion, Panthera leo. And I have to give one more scientific name for the saber-toothed cat just because it's so cool. The saber-toothed cat's name was Smilodon fatalis, which is kind of a mashup of Greek and Latin. which basically means roughly deadly knife-toothed.