The most famous study on selective breeding for passivity began in 1959 by Russian geneticist Dmitri Belyaev of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Siberia.

• 人为选育驯化物种的最著名例子，是位于西伯利亚细胞及遗传学研究所的俄罗斯遗传学家贝里也夫的研究。