Ancient DNA brings to life history of the iconic aurochs, whose tale is intertwined with climate change and human culture

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 02:39:46 | Updated at 2024-11-22 05:36:12 1 week ago

Ancient DNA brings to life history of the iconic aurochs, whose tale is intertwined with climate change and human culture
EurekAlert! ^ | October 30, 2024 | Trinity College Dublin

Posted on 11/13/2024 6:13:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs – the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art – by analysing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 millennia and stretching from Siberia to Britain.

The aurochs roamed in Europe, Asia and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their domestication to create cattle gave us a harnessed source of muscle, meat and milk. Such was the influence of this domestication that today their descendants make up a third of the world’s mammalian biomass.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: aurochs; beef; bovines; cattle; cows; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; nimalhusbandry

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1 posted on 11/13/2024 6:13:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv

To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 11/13/2024 6:15:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SunkenCiv

3 posted on 11/13/2024 6:19:20 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

To: Jet Jaguar

There is that pesky "climate change" again. LOL.

These people can't help themselves. They are mentally ill.

Frankly, I like central heating, electricity, automobiles, refrigeration, inexpensive easy care clothing, and fresh food year around.

4 posted on 11/13/2024 6:26:58 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)

To: SunkenCiv

I want them to clone me some aurochs. I’d like to raise them for auroch jerky and corner the market.

5 posted on 11/13/2024 6:28:49 PM PST by BipolarBob (Enough of this talk about narcissists, let's get back to talking about me.)

To: SunkenCiv

Scary big bull, bookmark.

6 posted on 11/13/2024 6:32:00 PM PST by Buttons12 (Don't just gripe. Retire now. Cut off their allowance. )

To: Governor Dinwiddie

“ These people can’t help themselves. They are mentally ill.”

It’s a religion. They have to say it to show fealty.

7 posted on 11/13/2024 6:32:56 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)

To: SunkenCiv

Yes, those aurochs gave us some of the most iconic early human art...

8 posted on 11/13/2024 6:38:59 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“President Trump sells out Madison Square Garden -- Kamala sells out America”)

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