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domestication of foxes - and the reverse
36 generations makes it domesticated
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Beginning in 1959, Belyaev bred successive generations of friendly foxes, essentially replicating the 12,000-year-old process of domestication in a fraction of the time.
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Scientists at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, have been selectively breeding silver foxes for hostility. After 36 generations, the 200-some foxes scream, snap, and lunge when humans approach
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(are there any breeding lines of herps more than 36 generations long?)
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