interesting experiment
led in the 1950s, the Russian geneticist Dmitri Belyayev breeding experiments with silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) by, selecting for breeding selectively from only the least aggressive animals. This also showed less fear and a low biting to the people. He finally got a population of foxes, which differed only in their behavior as much in their appearance from the foxes of the wild type.
showed after about ten to twenty generations of controlled breeding the foxes no longer afraid of people and welcomed the nurses with tail wagging and licking affection. External changes were spotted coat patterns, floppy ears and curly tails. To view this
were selected domesticated animals after only twenty generations just as love dogs! The same experiment was successful in rats and wild zebras. The latter were Incidentally, as untamable. It seems, however, genes for aggressive behavior given to those which our modern civilization really did not need ...
Unfortunately due to a human generation, around 30 years and a selection among the people closes naturally. So we will continue to pursue our people since time immemorial as the heads, scaring each other with idiotic power struggles, the joy of life and we behave in packs like wild animals. Although - a human (from Latin humanus -! Just human) make use of all our lives so much easier could.
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