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Reminds me of the Russian experiment that worked to prove that a selection process for behavior could produce domesticated foxes. An unanticipated side effect o
by kingkawn 6y ago
Reminds me of the Russian experiment that worked to prove that a selection process for behavior could produce domesticated foxes. An unanticipated side effect of the experiment after six or seven generations was that the foxes facial phenotype began to resemble dogs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)#Belyayev's_fox_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)#Be...
- tsdlts 6y agoThis is really interesting. Does anyone know of any other instances of behavioral traits having a direct link to an animal's appearance?
- Cactus2018 6y agoFigure 2. Representatives of different families and orders show the most specific morphological markers of domestication, white spotting on the head (top row) and floppy ears (bottom row): Horse, cow, pig, sheep, dog, and rabbit. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763232/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763232/
- kingkawn 6y agoAll behavioral traits have a direct relationship to phenotype. What other at all reasonable way could it work?
- kipchak 6y agoOne fox, Pushinka, even allegedly barked at an intruder like a guard dog.