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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

Hardcover • 2017 • English

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

By Lee Alan Dugatkin

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About the book

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. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs they are foxes. 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. 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 t...Show more

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ISBN

9780226444185

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

Format

Hardcover

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