How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) : Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution (Hardcover)

from reading_fox

This was a charming look at epigenetics, and one of the only downsides was that word wasn't mentioned at all. It's a well known study, but I've not come across the details before. There is a very skilled blend between telling the personal stories of the scientists involved (hardly and easy propos...

from EowynA

Fascinating tale of the decades-long Soviet, then Russian, experiment to domesticate a line of silver foxes being raised in fox farms for their fur. I'd heard of this experiment before, but knew nothing about it in detail. It started in the early 1950s, breeding the calmest vixens to the calmest ...

from wolfeyluvr

Awesome read. I learned about the research and a lot about Russia and difficulties its scientists have had over the past 60 years. The main project was to breed domesticated foxes and observe them. Research projects focused on behavioral, morphological, and by the end of the book, genetic changes...

from jlbrownn23

An excellent and fascinating book. Take an amazing science experiment, add in some fascinating political history, plus a great story - and add in pet foxes! Who wouldn't love a pet fox?(and this is coming from me - look at my profile pic). The author certainly had a great story to tell, but did a...

from rivkat

Short but fun book about the Soviet/Russian project to breed tame foxes. Wolves and foxes are related enough to make the attempt plausible, but zebras and horses are also closely related enough to breed, and zebras haven't been successfully domesticated despite numerous attempts, nor have deer ex...