Portugese Water Dogs & Regulatory Genes

Good morningWas just sipping my coffee and watching The Discovery Channel. They had a short clip on Portugese Water Dogs being studied by a geneticist in Utah. After receiving information on the "geneaology" of these dogs, they found a bottleneck which has helped them to discover two (I think) regulatory genes which explain the rapid enormous changes in the breeds of dogs. They stated that this discovery could change the way "we" (not sure who we is ) look at evolution.Now my question .... what implications (if any) does this have for evolution science?

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Originally posted by Chara:
Good morning

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Was just sipping my coffee and watching The Discovery Channel. They had a short clip on Portugese Water Dogs being studied by a geneticist in Utah. After receiving information on the "geneaology" of these dogs, they found a bottleneck which has helped them to discover two (I think) regulatory genes which explain the rapid enormous changes in the breeds of dogs. They stated that this discovery could change the way "we" (not sure who we is ) look at evolution.

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Now my question .... what implications (if any) does this have for evolution science?

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I am probably being impatient, but I am interested to know what changes this would make in the way that evolution is looked at. Having only a rudimentary understanding of the evolutionary process, I confess I do not know what the implications are. The show did not elaborate at all on this point. I know that there are quite a few people here who are knowledgable in this field ... would love to hear your opinions on this.

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Originally posted by Quetzal:
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Chara: No comment?

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Not really, I had seen the show ... wondered what they meant when they said that it would cause a different perspective on evolution and asked the question. Was there something I should have said? :-)