After generations ... they devised an experiment to replicate the earliest days of dog domestication, but using a canid that had never before been domesticated: the silver fox.

Lyudmila Trut, the geneticist who led the decades-long experiment ... on the silver fox, a variant of the red fox, has become the gold standard for understanding the process of domestication.

Domesticated animals play ... "They also managed to select for the silver fur color. Even without knowing any genetics, they figured out how to crack the code." After that, the industry boomed, with ...

Domesticated animals play ... “They also managed to select for the silver fur color. Even without knowing any genetics, they figured out how to crack the code.” After that, the industry boomed, with ...

The catalyst for fox domestication was the increasing demand for silver ... there after World War II, whereas those rare types may have been lost when North American farms collapsed.” The research ...

Domesticated ... select for the silver fur color. Even without knowing any genetics, they figured out how to crack the code." After that, the industry boomed, with Canadian foxes being exported ...

When animals are domesticated ... experiment with farm foxes, the one that seemed to prove domestication theory. Belyayev found that after multiple generations of controlled breeding silver ...

More recently, Russian scientists have been able to trigger domestication syndrome in long-term controlled experiments by breeding successive generations of silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) for reduced ...

An upcoming board game, The Fox Experiment sees ... them interact with humans, before selecting those that responded more positively for breeding. With each new generation of foxes, the scientists ...