A friend of mine saw this on the tube and found it interesting. Which got me looking around for more.
Here is the wiki for Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyaev.
Fox Farm Experiment [pdf]
Adrenaline to Melanin
Melanin Metabolism
The full video: NOVA: Dogs and More Dogs
That should get you started.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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3 responses to “How Dogs Got Domesticated”
very,very cool.
This certainly demands closer examination.
Interesting stuff. I have heard mastiff and bullmastiff breeders swear that their brindle dogs have very different personalities than fawn dogs.
I wonder what other species we have “destabilized”. Buffaloes / cows, boars, sheep, goats, cats. I would love to see this experiment repeated with wild specimens and see how many generations before we have domestic animals.