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One model of horse domestication starts with individual foals being kept as pets while the adult horses were slaughtered for meat. Foals are relatively small and easy to handle. Horses behave as herd animals and need companionship to thrive. Both historic and modern data shows that foals can and will bond to humans and other domestic animals to ...
May 19, 2022 · Sifting through fossil bones and teeth, paleontologists have traced the ancestry of horses back roughly 50 million years to a dog-sized, hoofed animal called Hyracotherium — aka eohippus, the...
Oct 20, 2021 · Analysis of 273 ancient horse genomes reveals that modern domestic horses originated in the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region.
- Pablo Librado, Naveed Khan, Naveed Khan, Antoine Fages, Mariya A. Kusliy, Tomasz Suchan, Tomasz Such...
- 2021
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Based on modern genetic analyses, the answers to the questions surrounding horse domestication are that the horse has a diverse ancestry, that there was more than one domestication event, and that domestic horses have been widely interbred throughout the history of their domestication.
NameOriginHeight (hands)*AptitudeAkhal-TekeTurkmenistan14.2–16riding, racingAmerican Paint HorseU.S.15–16ridingU.S.14.2–16riding, racing, herdingU.S.15–16riding, light draftApr 2, 2021 · In recent years, a scientific consensus emerged linking the Botai culture of northern Kazakhstan with the first domestication of horses, based on compelling but largely indirect archaeological...
- William Timothy Treal Taylor, Christina Isabelle Barrón-Ortiz
- 2021
May 7, 2012 · In this paper, we use a spatially and demographically explicit model, parameterized with autosomal genotype data from >300 horses, sampled in 12 localities distributed throughout northern Eurasia ( Fig. 1 A ), to investigate the origin and spread of horse domestication.
The domestication of the horse was both a zoological and a technological innovation, which is one reason the study of horse domestication is so complicated. Certain discoveries hold out the hope that we might eventually understand this seminal event much better.
