Fashion vs. Function in Cultural Evolution: The Case of Dog Breed Popularity

We investigate the relationship between characteristics of dog breeds and their popularity between years 1926 and 2005. We consider breed health, longevity, and behavioral qualities such as aggressiveness, trainability, and fearfulness. We show that a breed's overall popularity, fluctuations in...

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Autores principales: Ghirlanda, Stefano, Acerbi, Alberto, Herzog, Harold, Serpell, James A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24040341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074770
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description We investigate the relationship between characteristics of dog breeds and their popularity between years 1926 and 2005. We consider breed health, longevity, and behavioral qualities such as aggressiveness, trainability, and fearfulness. We show that a breed's overall popularity, fluctuations in popularity, and rates of increase and decrease around popularity peaks show typically no correlation with these breed characteristics. One exception is the finding that more popular breeds tend to suffer from more inherited disorders. Our results support the hypothesis that dog breed popularity has been primarily determined by fashion rather than function.
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spelling pubmed-37705872013-09-13 Fashion vs. Function in Cultural Evolution: The Case of Dog Breed Popularity Ghirlanda, Stefano Acerbi, Alberto Herzog, Harold Serpell, James A. PLoS One Research Article We investigate the relationship between characteristics of dog breeds and their popularity between years 1926 and 2005. We consider breed health, longevity, and behavioral qualities such as aggressiveness, trainability, and fearfulness. We show that a breed's overall popularity, fluctuations in popularity, and rates of increase and decrease around popularity peaks show typically no correlation with these breed characteristics. One exception is the finding that more popular breeds tend to suffer from more inherited disorders. Our results support the hypothesis that dog breed popularity has been primarily determined by fashion rather than function. Public Library of Science 2013-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3770587/ /pubmed/24040341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074770 Text en © 2013 Ghirlanda et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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