Will most of the species that survive on earth in a thousand years time

To:	Laurie Knight <>
Subject:	Will most of the species that survive on earth in a thousand years time be domesticated?
From:	Peter Shute <>
Date:	Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:34:34 +0000

If the ultimate test for fox domestication is that you can walk them off leash, 
I can see how this is going to end up.

"here was a fox like Pushinka, who was so much like a dog that she came when 
her name was called and could be let out on the farm without a leash."

Peter Shute

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> On 17 Jul 2017, at 6:55 pm, Laurie Knight <> wrote:
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> The article "How We Really Tamed the Dog: A daring experiment builds a new 
> tame species in just 60 years.” 
> http://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/how-we-really-tamed-the-dog describes the 
> domestication of foxes in Russia.
> Given the nature of humanity and it’s relationship with the environment, 
> there is a strong possibility that there will be little or no wilderness left 
> on earth at the turn of the next millennium.
> Is it possible that the only species that will survive the Anthropocene will 
> be the ones that live in association with humans?
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