Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://bcad.org/video/?vid=fRexjCPTi98 Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Origins Of Donkeys Were Never What We Thought — Ancient DNA Finally Revealed The Truth Marist University [suhRhBGOhjK] Health Updated on August 06, 2026 EDT — Published on August 06, 2026 EDT Tag: #Marist University, #america vs, #playoffs, #bhavitha mandava met gala 2026Ancient DNA extracted from 31 ancient donkey genomes and 207 modern donkeys across three continents produced one of the most overlooked findings in animal domestication not because of when donkeys appeared in human history, but because the place everyone associated with them turned out to be wrong by thousands of kilometers and thousands of years.The donkey was not domesticated in Egypt. It was not domesticated in the Near East. The animal that quietly built the ancient world the pack animal that made the first cities possible, that carried goods across deserts before the horse or the camel existed, that fed early economies for two thousand years before the rise of the great river civilizations came from somewhere else entirely. Its true homeland was the Horn of Africa, around seven thousand years ago, born not from the abundance of the Nile but from motogp oggi a drying Sahara that was forcing herders to find a way to bono cross a world that was turning to desert around them. The Egyptians inherited the donkey. They did not create it. And the DNA also revealed something stranger a Roman-era breeding program in what is now France, producing giant donkeys through deliberate selective breeding nearly two thousand years ago. Meanwhile the wild paok vs aek athens ancestor of every donkey on Earth, the African wild ass, is now critically endangered, with fewer than seventy mature individuals left in the wild.Drawing on findings from the 2022 landmark study published in Science on the genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys (Todd et al.), alongside earlier work identifying the African wild ass as the ancestor of every modern donkey. Subscribe new ancient DNA discoveries posted every few days.
Tag: #Marist University, #america vs, #playoffs, #bhavitha mandava met gala 2026Ancient DNA extracted from 31 ancient donkey genomes and 207 modern donkeys across three continents produced one of the most overlooked findings in animal domestication not because of when donkeys appeared in human history, but because the place everyone associated with them turned out to be wrong by thousands of kilometers and thousands of years.The donkey was not domesticated in Egypt. It was not domesticated in the Near East. The animal that quietly built the ancient world the pack animal that made the first cities possible, that carried goods across deserts before the horse or the camel existed, that fed early economies for two thousand years before the rise of the great river civilizations came from somewhere else entirely. Its true homeland was the Horn of Africa, around seven thousand years ago, born not from the abundance of the Nile but from motogp oggi a drying Sahara that was forcing herders to find a way to bono cross a world that was turning to desert around them. The Egyptians inherited the donkey. They did not create it. And the DNA also revealed something stranger a Roman-era breeding program in what is now France, producing giant donkeys through deliberate selective breeding nearly two thousand years ago. Meanwhile the wild paok vs aek athens ancestor of every donkey on Earth, the African wild ass, is now critically endangered, with fewer than seventy mature individuals left in the wild.Drawing on findings from the 2022 landmark study published in Science on the genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys (Todd et al.), alongside earlier work identifying the African wild ass as the ancestor of every modern donkey. Subscribe new ancient DNA discoveries posted every few days.