Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Nice or Nasty? Maybe It's in the Genes

On an animal-breeding farm in Siberia are cages housing two colonies of rats. In one colony, the rats have been bred for tameness. The other colony of rats has been bred from exactly the same stock, but for aggressiveness instead. The two strains of rat are part of a remarkable experiment started in the former Soviet Union in 1959.

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