#whatimreading#Horses, a 4,000 year genetic journey across the world, by Ludovic Orlando (translated).

#whatimreading
#Horses, a 4,000 year genetic journey across the world, by Ludovic Orlando (translated). Somewhen somewhere in our past a group of people figured out domesticating horses for fun & profit. Their horses are ancestors to all horses today. The search for the first domesticated horses combines archeology, linguistics, genetics to track down who did it and where and when. #bookstodon #science #genetics Spoiler: it was the Yamna Kurgan indo-European speakers on the Pontic steppe.