Lyudmila Trut, the Russian geneticist who dedicated her life to a revolutionary – and evolutionary - experiment investigating the domestication of silver foxes ...

Lyudmila Trut kept the study going on a shoestring after fall of the Soviet Union and the late-1990s collapse of the rouble, but by 1999 only 100 tame females and 30 tame males were left alive.

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 Jon Mooallem ...

Quincy Jones, Janey Godley, Lyudmila Trut, Dr Paul Stephenson Matthew Bannister on musician Quincy Jones, comedian Janey Godley, geneticist Lyudmila Trut and campaigner Dr Paul Stephenson. Show more ...

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 kept the study going on a shoestring after fall of the Soviet Union and the late-1990s collapse of the rouble, but by 1999 only 100 tame females and 30 tame males were left alive.

References Dugatkin, Lee Alan and Lyudmila Trut. 2017. How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution. University of Chicago Press.

The most famous example of domestication syndrome comes from a 1959 experiment, in which Soviet biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut took a few dozen wild silver foxes from a Siberian fur ...

I took a chance and emailed Lyudmila Trut, who had been leading the fox experiment since its inception in 1959. I told Lyudmila I would love to work with her to tell the story of this remarkable ...

That's very true, and domesticated foxes do exist. In 1959, Russian scientists Dmitry Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut wanted to break down the fox and create this new kind of dog.