18 - From Wolves to Dogs
Feb 12, 2020, 05:00 AM
Happy Darwin Day! We discuss geneticist Dimitri Belyaev’s efforts to domesticate the Russian silver fox, and how his experiments shed light on the domestication of grey wolves.
Belyaev's Foxes [Scientific American]
Rats and Foxes [NYT]
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
Intro music [YouTube]
Outro music - Ichika Nito [YouTube]
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