![]() Written by evolutionary biologist and science historian Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut, who has been part of this experiment for close to six decades, it tells the story from its inception.īack in 1952, geneticist Dmitri Belyaev had many questions regarding domestication. When the announcement for it crossed my desk a month or so ago, its subtitle immediately grabbed my attention.įor more than 60 years, Russian scientists have been cross-breeding captive foxes in Siberia, selecting for tameness, in a bid to learn more about the evolutionary history of animal domestication. I hadn’t, despite my background in evolutionary biology. How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) tells a remarkable story about a remarkable long-term experiment you will most likely never have heard of. Published in March 2017 by Chicago University Press ![]() Written by Lee Alan Dugatkin & Lyudmila Trut ![]() How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution ![]()
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