Sheep Shape
How ovine ancestors orchestrated Eurasian history
At the beginning of the year, an awesome, interdisciplinary research paper came out illuminating the origins of our modern sheep breeds and the role of sheep in a mass migration that forever changed the face of Europe. The scope of this work was monumental. Daly et al. sequenced 118 ancient genomes of both domestic and wild sheep from Mongolia to Irelan…
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