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by jamesbkel 5808 days ago
I studied this in a course on canine psychology and you are exactly right that they were selecting only for tameness and that it helped answer the question of why we see certain traits in domesticated dogs.

The original work was done by Dmitri Belyaev

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_K._Belyaev