So ultimately their PR team is choosing to bulldoze over all the lessons we have learnt from quantitative genetics in the last century - interactions by millions of variants throughout the genome with small contributions to traits is how physical traits evolve over time
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Did they dire-fy a grey wolf? Yes, by 20 variants, but with no way to predict how those 20 variants interact with the grey wolf millions of differences in a way that is almost certainly different between the two species - according to a hundred years of theory