A 1,000-Year-Old ‘Evolutionary Jolt’ Helped African Cattle Adapt to the Continent’s Multiple Challenges

A new study in Nature Genetics retraced 1,000 years of African pastoralist cattle breeding, identifying how cattle acquired the traits that enabled them to spread throughout the continent NAIROBI, Kenya (DATE)— Scientists sifting through the DNA of indigenous African cattle breeds announced today the discovery of a thousand-year-old ‘admixture event’ between the world’s two main … Continue reading