EvolutionMay 1, 2017
Wild Foxes Can Be Transformed into Pets in a Few Generations
To test ideas of animal domestication, a bold experiment in Siberia put evolution on a fast track
Stories by Lyudmila Trut
Lyudmila Trut is an evolutionary geneticist and a professor at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, where the fox-domestication experiment takes place. She has lived this story, told in her voice, since 1959.