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New Normal
Radiolab
Why Do Foxes Have Floppy Ears?
The argument is that when you select against aggression in animals You're changing the timing and the rate of development. The experimental foxes are actually frozen as juveniles They actually never really grow up So then to domesticate a fox Just like to domesticates a wolf into a dog What you're doing is you're making them permanent puppies It's a Peter Pan kind of thing Wait a minute, wait a minute so if we wanted to apply this to us And we wanted to say breed a gentler, sleeker human being We should just kill the football players, is that the idea? Well you're going to have something against football players No actually I like football But I mean like with the foxes
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