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Regally he blinked at his dogdom, sniffing at the high air.

But I think nobody has yet fully understood how freaking hilarious it is that Elizabeth Holmes picked Balto, of all dogdom, for this now-probably-dead dog’s namesake.

Owner Jenine Wech had been quick to sign him up for the first-ever dock-diving demonstration at U.S. dogdom’s most illustrious show.

The researchers’ analysis revealed eight main trajectories of what vonHoldt calls “dogdom”: terriers, sled dogs, sheepdogs and cattle dogs, sight hounds, spitzes and “primitive-type” dogs, scent hounds, pointing dogs and retrievers.

The team found that whole suites of genes were involved in the evolution of specific behaviors in the different dogdom lineages.