• Russian domesticated red fox project update

    From Opinicus@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 13 13:59:52 2016
    An article appearing today on the BBC website has a recap of the
    Russian fox domesication project and a few bits of information I was
    previously unaware of such as:

    "The study of genetics had been essentially banned in the USSR, as the country's dictator Joseph Stalin sought to discredit the genetic
    principles set out by Gregor Mendel. Stalin's death in 1953 gave
    scientists more freedom, but in the early years Belyaev nevertheless
    worked under the cover that he was breeding foxes to make better fur
    coats."

    http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160912-a-soviet-scientist-created-the-only-tame-foxes-in-the-world

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