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DNA analysis reveals 11,000-year bond between sheep and humans
Now, a genetic study of ancient sheep bones sheds new light on their early domestication, dispersal, and adaptation. Sheep were first domesticated from wild Asiatic mouflon in what is now Türkiye ...
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Ancient ancestor of the plague discovered in Bronze Age sheep
The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread through prehistoric farming communities ...
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The Hidden Origin of the Black Death – The Bacteria That Caused Millions of Deaths Has Been Found in a Prehistoric Sheep
Recent DNA analysis has uncovered that a Bronze Age sheep from Arkaim, a settlement in the southern Urals (situated in modern Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, near ...
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Mar 1: The recipe for finding life on other planets, and more...
Sheep are among the animals that humans domesticated first, in the Middle East during the dawn of agriculture. A new genetic study of hundreds of ancient sheep remains, which date across 12 ...