title: Animal evolution: foxy friends.
abstract: Red foxes that have been selected since 1959 for tameness to humans show some of the sociocognitive abilities of domestic dogs, raising questions for theories of the evolution of cognition.
authors.affiliation: Scottish Primate Research Group, and Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, Scotland UK.
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Byrne
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005589:Foxes / Q000502:physiology*; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D013045:Species Specificity