dog-ness

Updated: June 21, 2025

Here again there are wild forms, like the wolf and fox and jackal, so like the domesticated members of the dog tribe that we cannot fail to recognize a common "dog-ness" and its significance as evidence of the relationship in ancestry of all these animals. Extending our survey so as to include the other tribes of flesh-eaters, identical principles come to light.

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope