To better understand the evolution of the dog under domestication, Russian biologist Dmitry K. Belyaev initiated a long-term project to domesticate the silver fox by selectively breeding for...

To better understand the evolution of the dog

under domestication, Russian biologist Dmitry K.

Belyaev initiated a long-term project to domesticate the silver fox by selectively breeding for tameability. For a review of this work, see:

Trut, L., I. Oskina, and A. Kharlamova. 2009. Animal evolution during domestication: The domesticated fox as a model. BioEssays 31:

349–360.