Sunday Feb 22, 2026
Episode 19 - Snail Horns
In which we discuss dangerous animals, high tides, and ancient horns.
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Music in the episode: "Flying Kerfuffle" and "Space Jazz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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2 months ago
A couple of points about the silver foxes. First, you mentioned Mendelian inheritance. You didn’t mention that that is and was the prevailing theory everywhere - except in the Soviet scientific establishment, where Stalin had made Lysenkoism the state dogma. So Belyaiev had to disguise his experiment as something else Secondly, I believe that many of the physical characteristics of domestic animals are examples of neoteny: the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood.