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City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, if you ever run across the theories of how dogs became so close to us, it started with wolves being willing to take the risks of scavenging near us, and eventually co-evolving (until selective breeding started).

Actively, intentionally domesticating a species is a slow process overall, and it wasn't something that I've seen any specialists suggest would have been the case with dogs, or cats.