A bit unhinged, aren't we r17?
[quote]There has also been a spate of technical papers on the role that gene expression — the switching of genes between “on” and “off” states — plays in the domestication of foxes and, in all likelihood, other animals. It is all too easy to forget that Belyaev predicted the link between domestication and what we now call gene expression patterns before the field of molecular genetics ever existed.
[quote]To this day, no study has taught us more about domestication, the very process responsible for our pets and farm animals (and crop plants), than Belyaev’s fox experiment.
No one said the study was perfection incarnate. But you are woefully wrong in assessment.
[quote]The Russian fox experiment is widely studied and deeply flawed. Controlled selective breeding of caged creatures does not replicate millennia of natural selection.
It was never meant to replicate "natural selection." It was meant to provide insights into the process by which dogs (and a few other animals) became domesticated - which is fundamentally different from being "tame."
[quote]Not matter how eloquently she tries to phrase her shit, [R9] is a simple basic bitch spewing bunk and you're just as bad for encouraging her.
Show us all these widely done studies that show that experiment to be "deeply flawed."
According to Scientific American: "These results have led to speculation that similar models could account for the superior behavioral and cognitive traits (and physical and physiological differences) of domestic dogs over their wolf ancestors."
I am not "spewing" anything. I am sharing my own assessment of pit bulls and why I wouldn't adopt one. As for other people making this link, I have not seen it. It is, in fact, my own analysis - flawed though you may find it. It is how I formed and informed my thinking on the subject of adopting this breed.
Of course, I welcome any citation that contradict my point, especially those that show the Russian study as flawed (as it seems to be frequently and regularly cited as the basis for other analyses), as well as any other analyses that make a similar connection between the breeding for specific character traits and pit bulls...if you can, that is.
