<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:32 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm reading a book about domestication syndrome: when mammals are <br>
selected for reduced aggression, they acquire a cluster of seemingly <br>
unrelated and irrelevant traits.<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_syndrome" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_syndrome</a><br>
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The trigger appears to be simple enough that I can imagine a mad <br>
scientist releases a virus that domesticates most of the world's <br>
mammals. Who'll write that story?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe a virus to domesticate humans, in search of floppy ears and novel coat colors/patterns? </div></div></div>