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Lyudmila Trut, who has died aged 90, was a Soviet scientist and lead researcher on the silver fox domestication study, one of ...
Lyudmila Trut, Who Bred Wild Foxes Into Docile Pets, Dies at 90. The Russian scientist compressed the millenniums-long process of domestication into a handful of generations. By .
Lyudmila Trut, the geneticist who led the decades-long experiment that created hundreds of ultralovable domesticated foxes on a farm in Novosibirsk, Russia, died peacefully in her sleep on October ...
Lyudmila Trut, an evolutionary geneticist at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, has been studying domestication in foxes since 1959.
In 1959, Lyudmila Trut rode trains through Siberia to visit fox farms. She wasn’t looking for furs. She needed a farm to host an audacious experiment dreamed up by geneticist Dmitry Belyaev: to ...
Lyudmila Trut, who has been involved in the silver fox experiment from the start and now runs it, disputes Karlsson’s argument. Trut admits that a small percentage of the fur farm foxes ...
The average pet lover may know the story of the foxes from a book by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut, who collaborated with Dr. Belyaev, called “How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog).” ...
Jennie Erin Smith reviews “How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)” by Lee Alan Dugatkin & Lyudmila Trut. In the 1960s, Soviet geneticists secretly set out to turn wild foxes into dogs.
For the last six decades, Lyudmila Trut and her colleagues have been running one of the most audacious experiments ever undertaken. The experiment, first conceived and led by Trut’s mentor, ...
Lyudmila Trut, born November 6 1933, died October 9 2024. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 3 months with unlimited access to our award ...