Scientists Bred Friendly Foxes for 70 Years. What They Found in Their Brains Could Help Explain How Wolves Became Dogs
From ZMEScience.com:
How do you turn a wild animal that might be alert, unpredictable, and likely aggressive into something more like a pet?
In the late 1950s, Soviet scientists launched an extraordinary fox experiment in Siberia. They took silver foxes raised on fur farms and began breeding together the individuals with the friendliest traits to humans. Within just six generations, some pups started voluntarily interacting with humans.
