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Famous Foxes Bred For Tameness Weren’t Actually Wild In The First Place, Claims Controversial New Paper
Decades ago, a Soviet geneticist purposely bred foxes to make them extra tame, an experiment that produced a host of unanticipated physical changes in the animals. It’s one of the most famous experiments in genetics, but it might not have gone down in the way we were told. A new opinion paper argues these foxes…