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Will dogs some day turn into different kinds of animals, like the evolution theory says?

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Will dogs some day turn into different kinds of animals, like the evolution theory says?

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You need to be more specific. When you say “different kinds of animals”, do you mean “different *species*”, and if so, a different species from what? From each other? Currently all dogs are the same species, because they can all still technically interbreed and produce fertile offspring. For *speciation* to occur (reaching the state where they cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring) requires two things: 1. Isolation; 2. Time (at least 100,000 years for a medium-sized mammal like a dog). Breeds of dogs are not currently isolated from each other. As much as professional dog breeders try to keep the breeds isolated, great danes still occasionally breed with german shepherds and golden retrievers and they with poodles and cocker spaniels, and they with bichons and chihuahuas. But even if they were completely isolated from each other, dog breeding has been going on for at most a few hundred years. That is not *NEARLY* enough for speciation to occur. So to answer your question, if d

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