Silver Fox Domestication (Early Canid Domestication)

SILVER FOX DOMESTICATION (EARLY CANID DOMESTICATION)
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(June 11, 2012)
Silver Fox Domestication (Early Canid Domestication)
How Domestication occurs, Relationship between Genetics and Behavior.
Russian scientists interested in the study of animal domestication and how wolves become domesticated dogs realized some genetic traits such as skulls unusually broad for their length and behaviors such as barking and submission. Scientists always look at dogs whenever they think about domestication. Evolutionary theorists speculates how dogs started living with human beings an anthropologist Darcy Morey identifies one key factor in domestication as the retention of juvenile traits by adults.
Another scientist Dmitry K. Believe like Morey belived changes observed in domesticated animals result from genetic changes occurring in course of selection and not the size or reproduction.Tamability was the factor used to determine how well an animal could adapt among human beings because behavior is rooted in biology. When subjected to various physiological changes the systems governing the animal`s body changes these changes explains why different animals could behave the same way when subjected to the same kind of pressure
Belyaev tested this hypothesis using a selective breeding program, he choose an animal close to a dog but never domesticated before, silver fox breeding. In his experimen...