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Fox experiment is replaying domestication in fast-forward

New book recounts nearly 60-year effort to understand taming process

wild silver fox

DOMESTICATION IN ACTION  How to Tame a Fox tells the story of a long-running experiment to domesticate silver foxes (a wild silver fox is shown).

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By Tina Hesman Saey

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