Brain Circuit Pruned to Make Wild Foxes Friendly
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Summary
How did wild foxes become cuddly companions in just generations? Researchers examining Belyaev's famous Siberian silver foxes discovered that domesticated foxes have fewer estrogen receptor alpha neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus—the brain's innate attack center.
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