How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog - Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution Dugatkin Lee AlanPaperback / softback
How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog - Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution Dugatkin Lee AlanPaperback / softback Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged…
Specifikacia How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog - Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution Dugatkin Lee AlanPaperback / softback
How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog - Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution Dugatkin Lee AlanPaperback / softback
Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken--imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs--they are foxes.
This is the extraordinary, untold story of this remarkable undertaking.Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut's fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time in order to witness the process of domestication.