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

by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut

Book Overview

Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs--they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken--imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022644418X
• ISBN13: 9780226444185
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"