Weekend wag the dog(s): The canine trisomy

Our two dogs were joined by a third this week, as we took in my mother-in-law’s dog while she tries to get over a case of bronchitis.

When walking our two dogs, their leashes regularly become intertwined and untwined from one another in a manner not unlike the double helix structure of DNA. My brief experiment with three dogs quickly revealed the more complicated spatial dynamics of the triple helix. Sometimes less is more.

About Adam Van Arsdale

I am biological anthropologist with a specialization in paleoanthropology. My research focuses on the pattern of evolutionary change in humans over the past two million years, with an emphasis on the early evolution and dispersal of our genus, Homo. My work spans a number of areas including comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.
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