The study of domesticated fox helped people see the world of not just foxes but wolves as well. A man named Dmitry Belyayev truly shown the light to foxes and made more people have time to appreciate foxes. Dmitry was born July 17, 1917, in Russia and studied domesticated foxes in 1959 to 1985 because of his brother that inspired Dmitry in genetics. The simple choice of Dmitry brother to get him inspired changed the world and people see both foxes and the world differently.
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Dmitry was born July 17, 1917, in Protasovo, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire. "It was his brother's influence that caused him to have this special interest in genetics", Belyayev's protégé, Lyudmila Trut, later said. Both Belyayev brothers were
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One subject that fascinated him was the question of how such a remarkable diversity of canine breeds had arisen from the domestic dog's lupine ancestors. Like other scientists, he "could not figure out what mechanism could account for the differences in anatomy, physiology, and behavior" that were obvious in dogs, but he was confident that the answer lay "in the principles of Mendelian inheritance."Genetics of domestication had also been of great interest to Darwin. It was recognized that domesticated animals differ in several ways from their wild counterparts, but it was not known what principle of selection had guided the Neolithic Farmers who had first domesticated these species thousands of years ago. Belyayev's hypothesis was that "all domesticated species had been selected for a single criterion: …show more content…
Those hormonal and chemical changes could then be implicated in anatomy and physiology. It could be that the anatomical differences in domesticated dogs were related to the genetic changes underlying the behavioral temperament for which they selected (tameness and low aggression). He believed that he could investigate these questions about domestication by attempting to domesticate wild