DOMINIC W. MASSARO, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz

What Dogs Do

How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind
By Stanley Coren. New York: Free Press, 2004. 351 pp. Cloth, $26.00.

The first scientific paper on dog behavior was published in 1884 by Charles Darwin's neighbor, Sir John Lubbock. Lubbock, governor of the Bank of England and inventor of British public holidays, was a keen amateur contributor to several branches of science. Lubbock thought that the standard method of training dogs to understand human commands underestimated dogs' communicative abilities because it offered no line of communication from dog to human. He had an original idea to get over this problem.