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Re: article: *lots of change in Animal Behavior* in recent decades
I think given enough dogs, a limitless supply of cash and a properly focussed goal that any good breeder could produce a genuine "new" breed in 20-30 years.
Merely by selecting for the right traits and choosing the right dogs.
We now have the capacity to trawl the world looking for the right genes.
We do not have to wait in our little village or town for the right dog to mosey into town or to try and produce a freak, as our forebearers did.
If anyone wanted to produce a "New" blue dog or a spotted one or one that has huge ears or big appealing eyes and puppy looks, it is not so difficult to do. It just needs the energy and commitment to do it.
Human engineered evolution can be very fast. I presume that in a wild population, if the environment changes suddenly then evolution could happen fairly quickly too.
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