How Domestication Altered the Genome of Ancient Horses (IMAGE)

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How Domestication Altered the Genome of Ancient Horses

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A recreated image of Scythian horses sacrificed at Berel', Kazakhstan some 2,300 years ago. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 28 April 2017, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by P. Librado at Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues was titled, "Ancient genomic changes associated with domestication of the horse."

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Carla Schaffer / Zainolla Samashev / AAAS

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