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[6] He decided to study the silver fox and to observe how the fox responds to selective pressures for tame behaviour. [10] Belyayev chose the silver fox for his experiment, "because it is a social animal and is related to the dog." [8] The silver fox had, however, never before been domesticated. Belyayev designed a selective-breeding program ...
The domesticated silver fox is a form of the silver fox which has been domesticated - to some extent - under laboratory conditions. The silver fox is a melanistic form of the wild red fox . Domesticated silver foxes are the result of an experiment which was designed to demonstrate the power of selective breeding to transform species, as ...
Lyudmila Nikolayevna Trut (Russian: Людми́ла Никола́евна Трут; 6 November 1933 – 9 October 2024) was a Russian geneticist, ethologist, and evolutionist. She is known for developing domesticated silver foxes from wild foxes with Dmitry Belyayev at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia. The ...
The domesticated silver fox is a form of the silver fox which has been domesticated—to some extent—under laboratory conditions. Domesticated silver foxes are the result of an experiment which was designed to demonstrate the power of selective breeding to transform species, as described by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species. [22]
The de novo domestication of animals has less scientific traction than that of plants, but one notable project is that undertaken by the Russian Institute of Cytology and Genetics to domesticate the fox. [17] This project aimed to study the theory of evolution and domestication syndrome by attempting the domestication of foxes, but was not ...
There are many records of domesticated red foxes and others, but rarely of sustained domestication. A recent and notable exception is the Russian silver fox , [ 48 ] which resulted in visible and behavioral changes, and is a case study of an animal population modeling according to human domestication needs.
Likened to a "silver fox" by China’s state media and online admirers due to his greying hair and diplomatic wiles, Wang currently heads the Chinese Communist Party Foreign Affairs Commission ...
A 2019 opinion paper by Lord and colleagues argued that the results of the "Russian farm fox experiment" were overstated, [13] although the pre-domesticated origins of these Russian foxes were already a matter of scientific record. [8]