The fact that all modern breeds of dog stem from wild wolves is evidence that
A) selection can use abundant hidden variation to move a population beyond its initial range of variation.
B) domestication of dogs involved a great deal of selection that whittled down the previously large diversity of wolves into the narrow range we call "dogs."
C) domestication of dogs involved a weakening of selection, and the result is a random range of dogs.
D) since dogs easily revert to wolf state if allowed to breed freely, dogs are mainly a cultural construct and are not genetically well defined.
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