Dmitry Belyaev (mathematician)
Dmitry Belyayev may refer to: *Dmitry Belyayev (zoologist) (1917–1985), Russian zoologist *Dmitry Belyaev (artist) Dmitry Vasilievich Belyaev (russian: Дмитрий Васильевич Беляев, November 18, 1921, Ryazan Province — September 25, 2007, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian and Soviet painter, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former ...

Dmitry Belyayev (zoologist)
Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayev (Russian: Дми́трий Константи́нович Беля́ев, 17 July 1917 – 14 November 1985) was a Soviet geneticist and academician who served as director of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (IC&G) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, from 1959 to 1985. His decades-long effort to breed domesticated silver foxes was described by ''The New York Times'' as “arguably the most extraordinary breeding experiment ever conducted.” A 2010 article in Scientific American stated that Belyayev “may be the man most responsible for our understanding of the process by which wolves were domesticated into our canine companions.” Beginning in the 1950s, in order to uncover the genetic basis of the distinctive behavioral and physiological attributes of domesticated animals, Belyayev and his team spent decades breeding the silver fox (''Vulpes vulpes'') and selecting for reproduction only those individuals in each generation that ...
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