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Horses may have been domesticated twice. Only one attempt stuck

Horse domestication arose from a need for speed about 4,200 years
ago, a genetic analysis finds

A man wearing a blue-green shirt and a red sash around his waist
rides a dark brown horse in pursuit of a riderless white horse. Three
other reddish horses run across a plain covered in straw-colored
grass.

Horses were domesticated on the steppes of Asia more than 4,000 years
ago, new genetic evidence suggests. The animals are still important
parts of culture today. Here, a rider herds horses in China's Inner
Mongolia region.

Ludovic Orlando

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By Tina Hesman Saey

June 6, 2024 at 12:31 pm

Horse power may have revved up about four millennia ago.

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