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Lyudmila Trut, Soviet scientist who sped up evolution with tame foxes that began to look like dogs - MSN
Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher on the silver fox domestication study, one of ...
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Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? - New York Daily News
In 1959, the Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes. Those least afraid of people were chosen to reproduce. His goal was to simulate the process that turned fierce … ...
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Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? - Chicago Tribune
In 1959, the Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes. Those least afraid of people were chosen to reproduce. His goal was to simulate the process that turned fierce … ...
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Russian foxes bred for tameness may not be the domestication story we thought - Science News
For the last 60 years, scientists in Siberia have bred silver foxes to be increasingly tame, with the goal of revealing the evolutionary and genetic underpinnings of domestication. This research ...
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Scientists once thought they understood how domestication worked. Now, they're not so sure
As famously laid out by Russian zoologist Dmitry Belyayev in the 1960s and 1970s during his "silver fox experiments," domestication syndrome posits that there are certain common physical traits ...
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Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? - Baltimore Sun
In 1959, the Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes. Those least afraid of people were chosen to reproduce. His goal was to simulate the process that turned fierce … ...
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Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? - Orlando Sentinel
In 1959, the Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes. Those least afraid of people were chosen to reproduce. His goal was to simulate the process that turned fierce … ...
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Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong?
Joker, a silver fox at Wolf Park in Indiana. A decades-long experiment on taming silver foxes informed a key theory about animal domestication that is now being called into question.
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Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? - The Morning Call
In 1959, the Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes. Those least afraid of people were chosen to reproduce. His goal was to simulate the process that turned fierce … ...
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Pets | Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? - The Columbus Dispatch
In 1959, the Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes. Those least afraid of people were chosen to reproduce. His goal was to simulate the process that turned fierce ...
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Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? - Sun Sentinel
In 1959, the Soviet zoologist Dmitry Belyaev began selectively breeding silver foxes. Those least afraid of people were chosen to reproduce. His goal was to simulate the process that turned fierce … ...