Scientists conducting genetics research were frequently censured, beaten or even murdered. In 1959, Soviet research was heavily influenced by Trofim Lysenko, who believed genetics to be capitalist propaganda. He enlisted Lyudmila Trut to begin one of the most ambitious breeding experiments ever conducted. Belyaev had bigger aims than utilitarian science he believed that an experiment in breeding tame foxes could shed light on the process of domestication. In 1959, biologist Dmitri Belyaev was conducting research in the USSR on fox farms, as the fur produced in these facilities was an important Soviet export. How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolutionīy Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut (University of Chicago Press).
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