Cool. I’m surprised this has never existed. How do they choose what movies to make available though?

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I think your points get at Belyaev's original intentions for the experiments. His papers are not so much "wouldn't it be cool if we could domesticate foxes in just a few generations", but speak much more to the fact that, as you select for behavioral traits, physical traits are sort of unintentionally selected. The interesting thing about it (though I don't think Belyaev said this) is that the domesticated physical traits tend to be "cute" by our standards. For example, the domesticated foxes have proportionally wider skulls, which I can't help but read and think about this: http://www.exploratorium.edu/mind/judgment/cuteify/v1/

Well, our definition of "cute" stems from thousands of years of answering the question "will this animal kill me". Those who successfully answered that could procreate, the others not so much.

I'd say it's more likely that our definition of "cute" stems from the question "is this a human baby".

Here's the article I originally wanted to post but couldn't find. Does a much better job than the more cursory nat geo piece. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/807641/posts

Video on experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jFGNQScRNY&feature=youtu.be

You can see another here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L58NPPQ5eI - this one is less of a documentary but better illustrates the contrast in behavior between the wild dark foxes versus the artificially selected tamer silver foxes. They're cool, I wouldn't mind having a fox as a pet.