Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare 1 .
However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage …

The extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) was a large type of cattle that ranged over
almost the whole Eurasian continent. The aurochs is the wild progenitor of modern cattle, …

Genome-wide analysis of 67 ancient Near Eastern cattle, Bos taurus, remains reveals
regional variation that has since been obscured by admixture in modern populations. …

The transformation of wild animals into domestic ones available for human nutrition was a
key prerequisite for modern human societies. However, no other domestic species has had …

The Eneolithic Botai culture of the Central Asian steppes provides the earliest archaeological
evidence for horse husbandry, ~5500 years ago, but the exact nature of early horse …

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Horse domestication revolutionized warfare and accelerated travel, trade, and the
geographic expansion of languages. Here, we present the largest DNA time series for a non-human …

The genomic changes underlying both early and late stages of horse domestication remain
largely unknown. We examined the genomes of 14 early domestic horses from the Bronze …

Domestic horses represent a genetic paradox: although they have the greatest number of
maternal lineages (mtDNA) of all domestic species, their paternal lineages are extremely …

Discriminant function analysis is a useful statistical tool for the solution of taxonomic
problems. This technique has been applied to the identification of early dog finds from …