Danna’s Reviews > How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution > Status Update

Most of the book feels like a long Wikipedia article solely about the experiment that supposedly concludes with most of the foxes being stolen for their furs, but then towards the end you jump back in time and it goes on a tangent about human evolution and the science of animal behavior and then linking it back to the fox experiment. It results in an non uniform chapter structure and was weird.

Obtaining a group of foxes, selecting the tamest and calmest ones to mate with each other while monitoring for behaviors and signs of early domestication, like wiggling tail, nearing to sniff a hand, adults still playing with their pups even as they get older, and floppy ears. Then mating the foxes that presented these signs over a decade, so far. Now Ludmila makes a bold move and stars preparing a fox to live w/ her