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From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region(news.cornell.edu)
43 points by gmays 3 days ago | 8 comments
[–] 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