Curly-Coated Retriever — an AI-generated illustration, not a photograph of a real dog
An AI-generated illustration — not a photograph of a real dog.

Curly-Coated Retriever

Placed on this panel from 4 sequenced dogs, among 258 breeds.

Measured nearest to Flat-Coated Retriever, and nothing among the other 257 breeds is nearer. The smallest branch holding them both covers 2.5% of this tree.

The 12 breeds nearest to Curly-Coated Retriever.

The line starts at the tightest pairing this panel holds and ends at the widest separation measured on it, so how far along these marks sit is the answer to how close Curly-Coated Retriever really is to anything.

1Flat-Coated Retriever2Norwegian Lundehund3Golden Retriever4Clumber Spaniel5Newfoundland6Irish Water Spaniel7Sussex Spaniel8Landseer9Broholmer10Bullmastiff11Cavalier King Charles Spaniel12Welsh Springer Spaniel

Closeness is measured from the genomes, and nothing else. It has no units and no dates. Two breeds sitting close together means their lines separate late in this data. It does not mean either one came from the other.

4 sequenced dogs is a thin sample. This breed’s exact neighbours could move if more were added; the neighbourhood is steadier than the order within it.