Showing posts with label equines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equines. Show all posts
Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, August 18, 1923. Silent Cal goes riding...
Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, August 18, 1923. Silent Cal goes riding...:
Sigh, oh for the days this was normal, and not the sh** show the nation's politics are today.
Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: These German soldiers and their mule...
Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: These German soldiers and their mule...:
Blog Mirror: These German soldiers and their mules have achieved all my relationship goals
These German soldiers and their mules have achieved all my relationship goals
I have to admit, if I'd grown up in a country that was fielding mules in their army in the Alps, I'd now be a retired soldier.
That's cool.
Lex Anteinternet: Donkeys
Lex Anteinternet: Donkeys:
Donkeys
Donkeys transformed human history as essential beasts of burden for long-distance movement, especially across semi-arid and upland environments. They remain insufficiently studied despite globally expanding and providing key support to low- to middle-income communities. To elucidate their domestication history, we constructed a comprehensive genome panel of 207 modern and 31 ancient donkeys, as well as 15 wild equids. We found a strong phylogeographic structure in modern donkeys that supports a single domestication in Africa ~5000 BCE, followed by further expansions in this continent and Eurasia and ultimately returning to Africa. We uncover a previously unknown genetic lineage in the Levant ~200 BCE, which contributed increasing ancestry toward Asia. Donkey management involved inbreeding and the production of giant bloodlines at a time when mules were essential to the Roman economy and military.
Abstract, The genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys.
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