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Evolutıon BY LEE ALAN DUGATKIN, Ph.D. ILLUSTRATION BY DANNY SCHWARTZ
16 DANA FOUNDATION CEREBRUM | SPRING 2020 S ince How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) was published in 2017, molecular genetics research connected to the silver fox domestication experiment has appeared in Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Lee Alan Dugatkinwrites about his connection to the project, the role of neural crest cells in domesticating foxes, and howdogs, bonobos, and humans fit into the picture.
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