Excerpts from a Soviet-era film made for the 1977 International Congress of Genetics, held in Moscow, about experiments in domesticating the silver fox. These experiments showed that thousands of years of evolution could be compressed into decades. The story is told in a new book by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut, How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution published by the University of Chicago Press.
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