% pubman genre = article @article{item_3257006, title = {{Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski{\textquoteright}s horses}}, author = {Gaunitz, Charleen and Fages, Antoine and Hangh{\o}j, Kristian and Albrechtsen, Anders and Khan, Naveed and Schubert, Mikkel and Seguin-Orlando, Andaine and Owens, Ivy J. and Felkel, Sabine and Bignon-Lau, Olivier and Barros Damgaard de, Peter and Mittnik, Alissa and Mohaseb, Azadeh F. and Davoudi, Hossein and Alquraishi, Saleh and Alfarhan, Ahmed H. and Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S. and Crub{\'e}zy, Eric and Benecke, Norbert and Olsen, Sandra and Brown, Dorcas and Anthony, David and Massy, Ken and Pitulko, Vladimir and Kasparov, Aleksei and Brem, Gottfried and Hofreiter, Michael and Mukhtarova, Gulmira and Baimukhanov, Nurbol and L{\~o}ugas, Lembi and Onar, Vedat and Stockhammer, Philipp W. and Krause, Johannes and Boldgiv, Bazartseren and Undrakhbold, Sainbileg and Erdenebaatar, Diimaajav and Lepetz, S{\'e}bastien and Mashkour, Marjan and Ludwig, Arne and Wallner, Barbara and Merz, Victor and Merz, Ilja and Zaibert, Viktor and Willerslev, Eske and Librado, Pablo and Outram, Alan K. and Orlando, Ludovic}, language = {eng}, issn = {0036-8075}, doi = {10.1126/science.aao3297}, publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science}, address = {Washington, D.C.}, year = {2018}, date = {2018}, abstract = {{The Eneolithic Botai culture of the Central Asian steppes provides the earliest archaeological evidence for horse husbandry, {\textasciitilde}5,500 ya, but the exact nature of early horse domestication remains controversial. We generated 42 ancient horse genomes, including 20 from Botai. Compared to 46 published ancient and modern horse genomes, our data indicate that Przewalski{\textquoteright}s horses are the feral descendants of horses herded at Botai and not truly wild horses. All domestic horses dated from {\textasciitilde}4,000 ya to present only show {\textasciitilde}2.7{\textpercent} of Botai-related ancestry. This indicates that a massive genomic turnover underpins the expansion of the horse stock that gave rise to modern domesticates, which coincides with large-scale human population expansions during the Early Bronze Age.}}, journal = {{Science}}, volume = {360}, number = {6384}, pages = {111--114}, }