Genetic study pins horse domestication to steppes
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of one of man's most powerful animal allies to wide-open grasslands shared by Ukraine, southwest Russia and Kazakhstan, researchers said Monday.
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