Domesticity and appearance
2004-03-29 21:28:32.773983+02 by
Dan Lyke
3 comments
Busy busy busy the first few days of this week, so updates on the weekend's trip will have to wait. To tide you over, something that looks like a "must-read" that I've not yet had a chance to pursue too far. A little link lovin' to Jerry Kindall who had a link to Good Tempered Creatures, which is an article about breeding for domestication which, among other links, pointed to Early Canid Domestication: The Farm Fox Experiment (HTML, no pictures) (but see PDF version with pictures) which describes a 40 year long experiment to breed foxes for domesticity that found that many of the traits we find endearing, like floppy ears, appear to be a side effect of breeding for behavior.
More grist for the "beauty may not be only skin deep" mill...
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#Comment Re: made: 2004-03-30 03:54:31.661207+02 by:
td
On the front page, this clause no verb: "many of the traits we find endearing, like floppy ears." But on the comment page, the sentence ends with "appear to be a side effect of breeding for behavior". What up?
#Comment Re: made: 2004-03-30 18:40:18.524237+02 by:
Dan Lyke
Edit not update flag which rebuild front page.
#Comment Re: made: 2004-03-30 22:12:45.465656+02 by:
crasch
Nifty article!
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