horses

This paper by David Anthony, Martin Trautmann, and Volker Heyd, is a major rebuttal to recent genetic studies (1,2,3,4) that argued horse domestication and horseback riding only became historically significant after ~2200–2100 BCE, meaning that the Yamnaya migrations were not carried out on...

We know that Paleolithic and Neolithic Western Europeans were lactose intolerant, as well as many Eastern Europeans who were not R1. But an study showed that among Yamnayas, for example, 94% were clearly milk drinkers. It's already well studied that the key to their success came from the...

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes Abstract Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare1. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological...

Graphic warning. Heatwave turns already arid Kazakh steppe into mass grave for horses[https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/heatwave-turns-already-arid-kazakh-steppe-into-mass-grave-horses-2021-08-06/]

It will only be a matter of time before it's humans being edited. Ingenious way to eliminate rodents. It would be great if they did that to eradicate other pests, like cockroaches, bed bugs, and termites. But couldn't that lead to some unwanted consequences? As much as I hate pests, they do...