103 - Lee Dugatkin - Jumpstarting Evolution
Two for Tea Podcast
English - September 19, 2021 12:26 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Lee’s book with Lyudmila Trut, How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution (2017) can be found here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Tame-Fox-Build-Dog/dp/022644418X
I also highly recommend Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale's Museum (2020):
https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Crimson-Curtain-Peales-Museum/dp/1941953727
Follow Lee on Twitter @LeeDugatkin
Timestamps
1:27 Behind the Crimson Curtain and other books
2:59 The silver fox breeding project
14:13 When you select for tameness, you get a suite of other changes; evolution through changes to gene expression, rather than changes to the genes themselves.
22:36 Evo devo
24:51 The cascade of apparently unrelated changes which appear when you select for one trait. Neural crest cells. Why do tame animals often have floppy ears?
32:18 Other changes associated with domestication; cross-fostering experiments
40:08 Humans as self-domesticated apes
46:46 The amazing people working on the fox domestication experiments
54:34 More thoughts on early human–wolf interactions