Mystery of horse taming 'solved' by gene study

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Horses were domesticated 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, a genetic study shows.

Domestic horses then spread across Europe and Asia, breeding with wild mares along the way, research published in the journal PNAS suggests.

The work, by a Cambridge University team, brings together two competing theories on horse domestication.

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Jane Aule put that theory forward in her "Clan of the Cave Bear" books..
 
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