05/22/12, 10:56 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 108
|
|
Mystery of horse taming 'solved' by gene study
Horses were domesticated 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, a genetic study shows.
Domestic horses then spread across Europe and Asia, breeding with wild mares along the way, research published in the journal PNAS suggests.
The work, by a Cambridge University team, brings together two competing theories on horse domestication.
Complete Article
Horses and Other Equines: Mystery of horse taming 'solved' by gene study
__________________
Queue
Pakistan
|
