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For the love of dog: How our canine companions evolved for affection

It's not just the food, your dog really does love you - and researcher Clive Wynne has done the studies to prove it

By Tiffany O'Callaghan

1 January 2020

Clive Wynne

Clive Wynne founded the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University and is director of research at Wolf Park, Indiana. His new book is Dog is Love

courtesy Quercus Books

CLIVE WYNNE has long been fascinated by other creatures’ minds. He studied the behaviour of pigeons, rats and marsupials, but came to realise that he was more interested in how people and other species interact with each other. So he shifted his focus to dogs, the animal we have the longest and most intimate relationship with.

At that time, the idea was emerging that what makes dogs unique is their…

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