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Modern Dog    From Roman antiquity,dogs have been classified according to their skills.Originally,they were divided into herders,hunting dogs and house dogs.In the eighteenth century,Buffon attempted to classify dogs by ear shape,separating them into thirty straight-eared.

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basil
10/15/2008
07:59:54 AM
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Who is Buffon? Can you tell us who is this person?
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alaskan
10/15/2008
08:01:46 AM
Re: Modern Dog
Ladies and gentleman... to be exact Buffon is Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, a famous French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Greatly influenced by Aristotle and contemporay of Lamarck and Darwin. He is author of the book Origin of Species.
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alaskan
10/15/2008
08:02:23 AM
Re: Modern Dog
He is also noted that certain regions got distinct animals and plants, the concept was later on known as Buffon's Law. The first principle of Biogeography.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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