User:William Harris

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Registered JAN14, retired JAN22 - after 8 years I have moved on to pursue other interests.

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This editor won the Three-Quarter Million Award for bringing Dire wolf to Featured Article status.

This editor won the Three-Quarter Million Award for bringing Dire wolf to Good Article status.

This editor won the Quarter Million Award for bringing Golden jackal to Featured Article status.

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**Missing** - the dog ancestor. Last seen during the last glacial maximum chasing steppe bison across the mammoth steppe. If found, please contact William Harris.

The evidence supporting a close relationship of dogs with gray wolves is overwhelming.
— Robert K. Wayne 1999^[1]

It was such a long standing view that the gray wolf that we know today was around for hundreds of thousands of years and that dogs derived from them. We're very surprised that the're not.
— Robert K. Wayne 2015^[2]

An extinct Late Pleistocene wolf may have been the ancestor of the dog, with the dog's similarity to the extant gray wolf being the result of genetic admixture between the two.
— Olaf Thalmann 2018^[3]

Modern dogs, however, are not descended from the same Canis lineage as modern wolves and instead may be descended from a Pleistocene wolf closer in size to a village dog.
— Katheryn Lord 2020^[4]

I am interested in the latest research on the origin of the domestic dog.

My interest is in the genetic divergence of the dog lineage from a ghost population of Late Pleistocene wolves, and the possibly related "Paleolithic dog". My interest begins with the divergence of the ancestral dog from its wolf-like ancestor, and ends with the discovery of the Bonn–Oberkassel dog dated 14,200 years ago that was found buried along with two humans.

"Raise your words, not your voice" - Rumi

Favourite Contributions
Articles created	Major overhauls	Significant contributions	Good article reviews
Domestication of animals	Dire wolf†	Golden jackal	Hybrid (biology)
Evolution of the wolf	Beringian wolf†	Dog	Adaptation
Paleolithic dog†	Origin of the domestic dog	Dingo	Belgian Shepherd
Cave wolf†	Dog breeds	New Guinea singing dog	Pointer (dog breed)
Pleistocene wolf†	Dog behavior	Free-ranging dog	Pyrenean Mountain Dog
Canis variabilis†	Dog communication	Irish wolfhound	Clouded leopard
Canis mosbachensis†	Dog intelligence	Red wolf
Canis etruscus†	Canis lupus dingo	Eastern wolf
Vulpini (fox tribe)	Wolf	Greenland wolf
Canini (dog tribe)	Himalayan wolf	Subspecies of Canis lupus
Canina (subtribe)	Indian gray wolf (Canis indica)	Pleistocene coyote†
Cerdocyonina (subtribe)	Ezo Wolf†	Canis arnensis†
Lupulella (genus)	Japanese wolf†	Caninae sub-family
Mongolian wolf	Great Plains wolf†	Urocyon genus
Wolf communication	Xenocyon† sub-genus	Beringia
Wolf distribution	Mammoth steppe
Ghost population (phylogenetics)	Domestication
Domestication islands (genetics)

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	The Editor's Barnstar
	For your masterpiece in dog related articles. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 14:09, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

		The Bio-star
		For prodigious work overhauling the very important article Domestication. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 11:24, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

For a doglover a LOLcat, for your work on Dire wolf. AshLin (talk) 03:33, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

	A lick from Holly
	I read your dog evolution article last week and the wolf one you suggested this week - so impressed that I'm sending over my youngest Springer Spaniel Holly so she can lick your face - go raibh mile maith agut! Xyzspaniel (talk) 23:06, 8 September 2016 (UTC) A thousand blessings to you too, Xyzspaniel, and for helping to keep the Gaeilge living! - Liam 09:38, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	I think you didn't get enough credit for your hard work on Evolution of the wolf. An exceptional article that left me extremely impressed. You definitely deserve this barnstar for your tireless contributions. Have a good day! Burklemore1 (talk) 06:41, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

history of the dog

Thank you for quality articles such as dire wolf, Beringian wolf and Domestication of animals, for stewardship on articles, for keeping the lessons learned from Corinne, for a clear and enthusiastic user page, for quoting "Raise your words, not your voice", - William, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:47, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Hi Thanks for your effort Ro.faridi (talk) 19:15, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. ) Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:33, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you very very very very much for helping me out so much! Adityavagarwal (talk) 15:18, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

		The Canine Barnstar
		For tirelessly completing the monumental task of reviewing and reclassifying all of the dog related articles on English Wikipedia (over 3800 of them). Cavalryman (talk) 12:07, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

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^ Vila, C.; Maldonado, J. E.; Wayne, R. K. (1999). "Phylogenetic relationships, evolution, and genetic diversity of the domestic dog". Journal of Heredity. 90 (1): 71–77. doi:10.1093/jhered/90.1.71. PMID 9987908.
^ Morrell, Virginia (2015). "Ch2.1-From Wolf to Dog". In Editors of Scientific America (ed.). Our Furry Friends: The Science of Pets. Scientific America. pp. 44–46. ISBN 978-1-4668-5901-2. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)
^ Thalmann, Olaf; Perri, Angela R. (2018). "Paleogenomic Inferences of Dog Domestication". In Lindqvist, C.; Rajora, O. (eds.). Paleogenomics. Population Genomics. Springer, Cham. pp. 273–306. doi:10.1007/13836_2018_27. ISBN 978-3-030-04752-8.
^ Lord, Kathryn A.; Larson, Greger; Coppinger, Raymond P.; Karlsson, Elinor K. (2020). "The History of Farm Foxes Undermines the Animal Domestication Syndrome". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35 (2): 125–136. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.011. PMID 31810775.

[1] Vila, C.; Maldonado, J. E.; Wayne, R. K. (1999). "Phylogenetic relationships, evolution, and genetic diversity of the domestic dog". Journal of Heredity. 90 (1): 71–77. doi:10.1093/jhered/90.1.71. PMID 9987908.

[2] Morrell, Virginia (2015). "Ch2.1-From Wolf to Dog". In Editors of Scientific America (ed.). Our Furry Friends: The Science of Pets. Scientific America. pp. 44–46. ISBN 978-1-4668-5901-2. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)

[3] Thalmann, Olaf; Perri, Angela R. (2018). "Paleogenomic Inferences of Dog Domestication". In Lindqvist, C.; Rajora, O. (eds.). Paleogenomics. Population Genomics. Springer, Cham. pp. 273–306. doi:10.1007/13836_2018_27. ISBN 978-3-030-04752-8.

[4] Lord, Kathryn A.; Larson, Greger; Coppinger, Raymond P.; Karlsson, Elinor K. (2020). "The History of Farm Foxes Undermines the Animal Domestication Syndrome". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35 (2): 125–136. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.011. PMID 31810775.

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