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"