Social Cognitive Evolution in Captive Foxes Is a Correlated By-Product of Experimental Domestication

@article{Hare2005SocialCE,
  title={Social Cognitive Evolution in Captive Foxes Is a Correlated By-Product of Experimental Domestication},
  author={Brian A. Hare and Irene Z. Plyusnina and Natalie Ignacio and Olesya Schepina and Anna Stepika and Richard W. Wrangham and Lyudmila N. Trut},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2005},
  volume={15},
  pages={226-230}
}
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