Yevgenia Albats, its political editor, blames the tameness of much of the print media on self-censorship and ambition.
Thus, according to the hypothesis, the same reduction in neural crest cells that may be responsible for tameness also may be responsible for all the other characteristics comprising "domestication syndrome".
After 40 generations, he had bred two distinct lines of foxes: one aggressive and deeply fearful of humans, the other tail-wagging, white-patched and floppy-eared, eager for human contact.Though tameness was the sole factor by which Mr Belyaev bred his foxes, he had simultaneously and inadvertently selected for the same sorts of traits that domesticated dogs exhibit.
They believe that tameness results from a reduction in the number of cells from what is called the neural crest.
Because of their tameness on land, many albatrosses are known by the common names mollymawk (from the Dutch for "foolish gull") and gooney.
4. The Oregon Ducks deserve praise for their bird's total tameness; they lose points because the mascot is actually Donald Duck . 3. Ohio Statewins the flora award.
Perhaps because of the cat's innate predisposition to tameness and its inherent faunal charm — what the Japanese would call kawaii.
These were serious matters, but after the delirium of the war years they had an air of tameness and normality which was welcome.
Over a period of forty years, at first under the direction of the geneticist Dmitry K. Belyaev, these foxes were selected for a single trait, tameness, and they then showed an astonishing range of other unplanned changes as they altered: they developed floppy ears and soft muzzles, and generally turned into dog-like pets.
"The Providence of GOD is manifested in the tameness and timidity of many of the largest inhabitants of the earth and sea," the British whaler, linguist, and historian William Scoresby, Jr., wrote in 1820, "whereby they fall victims to the prowess of man, and are rendered subservient to his convenience in life".
He stayed on at the school & was beaten 3 or 4 times, but he always put up a fight: he never submitted; and he is glad, because what he has always hated most in himself is his tameness.
