Happy Darwin Day! We discuss geneticist Dimitri Belyaev’s efforts to domesticate the Russian silver fox, and how his experiments shed light on the domestication of grey wolves.




Belyaev's Foxes [Scientific American]

Rats and Foxes [NYT]

The Greatest Show On Earth - Richard Dawkins [Amazon]



“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”




Intro music [YouTube]

Outro music - Ichika Nito [YouTube]
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