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covered and settled the island world; (2) to 
classify Polynesian breeds of dogs in relationship 
to other dogs of the Pacific and of the world, 
and to determine the closest kin of the island 
dogs among the breeds elsewhere; and (3) to 
determine how the peculiarities of the Poly- 
nesian and other Pacific dogs originated through 
artificial and natural selection, mutation, genetic 
drift, and adaptations resulting from domestica- 
tion and human use and care. 
Now, more than 350 years after the first 
known European contact with Polynesia, progress 
toward these goals and toward learning more 
about Cams familiaris Linnaeus of pre-European 
Polynesia must depend upon studying museum 
skeletal remains and artifacts made of dog bones, 
teeth, and hair, and recent archaeological finds 
of remains of dogs that are datable by radio- 
carbon analysis as pre-European in age. Research 
like that of Wood- Jones and Svihla gives hope 
that even at this late date something may be 
learned of the characteristic of the Polynesian 
dogs and of the origin of local variations. 
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