Can someone prove to me that dogs are canines?

[1monster]

66. New scientific research now disputes that... Apparently, dogs did not evolve from wolves but

wolves and dogs have a common ancester...

http://www.ibtimes.com/dogs-wolves-evolved-common-ancestor-dog-domestication-more-complex-previously-thought-1543518

Dogs And Wolves Evolved From Common Ancestor, Dog Domestication ‘More Complex’ Than Previously Thought

Dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago, a new study suggests.


A new study suggests dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago. Wikimedia Commons
Dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago, a new study suggests.


“This is an incredibly rich new dataset, and it has allowed us to carry out the most detailed analysis yet of the genetic history of dogs and wolves,” said Adam Siepel, associate professor of biological statistics and computational biology at Cornell and a co-author of the paper said. “There are still many open questions, but this study moves the ball forward.” (snip)

"One possibility is there may have been other wolf lineages that these dogs diverged from that then went extinct," study senior author John Novembre, an associate professor in the department of human genetics, said in a statement. "So now when you ask which wolves are dogs most closely related to, it's none of these three because these are wolves that diverged in the recent past. It's something more ancient that isn't well represented by today's wolves." (snip)