Tag: Domestication
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Domestication Syndrome: how to make your own pets and keep yourself young with one weird trick
On a farm in Siberia, a six-decade-long experiment is still ongoing: selectively breeding foxes to try and replicate the process of domestication. It began in 1959 with 130 ordinary silver foxes (a variant of the familiar red fox). The farm is now populated by foxes that wag their tails, love to be petted, and lick…