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That also jibes with the work of Peter Savolainen of Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology. Savolainen and his colleagues used MTDNA in their study too--in this case, to see how much the genetic material varied within dog populations. Animals from East Asia turned out to have the most variation, suggesting that this group's MTDNA had been around the longest and had had more time to branch into different subtypes. Presumably, then, the dogs arose there...
...comparing the dog MTDNA with the MTDNA of wolves, Savolainen and his colleagues were also able to estimate when the change happened. Beginning with approximations of how frequently MTDNA mutations take place and then counting the number present in their samples, they concluded that the genetic branching began 15,000 years ago, if three families of wolves were involved, or 40,000, if the entire process began with a single family...
...Matti Savolainen, who plays the part of Carea, one of the few intelligent defenders of the society Caligula sets out to destroy, fails to exude the shrewd acrimony of the practical man who knows what he wants and knows how to get it. This villain sports a long, thin moustache and a Latin accent, suggesting the Frito Bandito loose in the Roman Empire. Sonia Martinez evokes the right amount of cruelty, sensuality, and vacuousness that you would expect from a woman who devotes her life to a man who kills for reasons she finds incomprehensible, although she misses the more...
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