Who's A Good Fox? Soviet Experiment Reveals Genetic Roots Of Behavior

Over the course of more than a half-century, a Russian science experiment successfully bred the world's first domesticated fox. Now, by sequencing the fox genome and comparing tame foxes with their wilder kin, researchers are shedding light on the genetic effects of domestication — and perhaps on the evolution of human behavior as well.More than 10,000 years ago, and possibly as much as 40,000 years ago, humans domesticated a number of wolves into dogs. For more than a century, foxes wer