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Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago (apnews.com)

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Scientists have traced the ancestry of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago and quickly became dominant across Eurasia.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

[…] from what is now northeastern Bulgaria across Ukraine and through southern Russia, began to pop up all across Eurasia and quickly replaced other lineages. Within three hundred years, the horses in Spain were similar to those in Russia.

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