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Most domestic dogs exhibit strong stress responses when a family member/fellow dog dies or is missing for a long time. Is this a product of domestication, or do highly social wild canines (wolves, painted dogs, etc.) do the same when a packmate dies during a hunt or expires near the den?

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Would the earliest tetrapodomorphs have had tadpoles/larvae like modern amphibians? What distinguishes the tadpoles/larvae of amphibians from the larval stage of, say, lungfish?

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Do economic sanctions work? That is, do they quantifiably change the behavior of states subject to them (in ways that match the stated goals of the ones doing the sanctioning)?

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Most domestic dogs exhibit strong stress responses when a family member/fellow dog dies or is missing for a long time. Is this a product of domestication, or do highly social wild canines (wolves, painted dogs, etc.) do the same when a packmate dies during a hunt or expires near the den?	1
Would the earliest tetrapodomorphs have had tadpoles/larvae like modern amphibians? What distinguishes the tadpoles/larvae of amphibians from the larval stage of, say, lungfish?	1
Do economic sanctions work? That is, do they quantifiably change the behavior of states subject to them (in ways that match the stated goals of the ones doing the sanctioning)?	1