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Posted by gmays 4 days ago

From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region(news.cornell.edu)
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derektank 3 days ago|
Previous research had identified changes to gene expression in domesticated Siberian silver foxes that would affect the hypothalamus[1], but good to have further confirmation that the changes in gene expression resulted in structural changes too. Would be curious to know if anyone has done an analysis of the difference between wolves and dogs for comparison (or humans and chimpanzees for thar matter).

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31605445/

trallnag 3 days ago||
Has this already been tried with humans?
derektank 3 days ago|
About 300k years ago, it’s believed
FastDeep 3 days ago||
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xnx 3 days ago||
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prmph 3 days ago|
Including snakes, roaches, worms, mosquitoes?

Where do we draw the line?

xnx 3 days ago||
> Where do we draw the line?

They've got to be cute.

1-more 3 days ago||
The problem is that they get cuter as you domesticate them, so it's a moving target.
Gabriel_Martin 3 days ago||
little bzzbzz only sucks a little blood if he likes you!
1-more 3 days ago||
well, she.
aaron695 3 days ago|
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