An aurochs skull, from St Petersburg.Prof Dan Bradley, Trinity College Dublin.
Posted on 11/13/2024 6:13:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs – the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art – by analysing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 millennia and stretching from Siberia to Britain.
The aurochs roamed in Europe, Asia and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their domestication to create cattle gave us a harnessed source of muscle, meat and milk. Such was the influence of this domestication that today their descendants make up a third of the world’s mammalian biomass.
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An aurochs skull, from St Petersburg.Prof Dan Bradley, Trinity College Dublin.
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These people can't help themselves. They are mentally ill.
Frankly, I like central heating, electricity, automobiles, refrigeration, inexpensive easy care clothing, and fresh food year around.
I want them to clone me some aurochs. I’d like to raise them for auroch jerky and corner the market.
Scary big bull, bookmark.
“ These people can’t help themselves. They are mentally ill.”
It’s a religion. They have to say it to show fealty.
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Wait wait wait WAIT, you are telling me climate change is not new ahhhhhhhhhh😎
Oddly enough, the last known aurochs were in Poland about 400 years ago.
Fascinating info, as usual. I’d never heard of this type of cattle or that they went extinct so recently. It’s amazing that they were reserved for kings and royalty — you would have thought that they would have maintained large preserves of them to keep the breed going.
From the Reddit article you linked: “Since the half of 16th century aurochs were counted so we know exactly how many of them were still alive. It looks like royal warnings were not enough because during first years of Radziejowski rule almost all animals died out (from 24 in 1599 to just 4 in 1602).”
Probably the covid killed ‘em. ;^)
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What's Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]
They did a nice job. :^) Particularly since DNA wasn't discovered/described until 1953.
Here's a clip I tracked down, in a topic about Henrietta Lacks:
A scientist accidentally poured a chemical on a HeLa cell that spread out its tangled chromosomes. Later on, scientists used this technique to determine that humans have 46 chromosomes -- 23 pairs -- not 48, which provided the basis for making several types of genetic diagnoses.Matt Ridley pointed this out in his book "Genome" -- and the interesting part of this story is, because four living primates (gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, and chimps) have 24 pairs, it was wishful thinking that humans do also. The discoverer of the 23 pairs thought he had a freak, but in looking back, he even found photos in textbooks clearly showing 23 pairs, but captioned as 24 pairs. :')"For thirty years, nobody disputed this 'fact'. One group of scientists abandoned their experiments on human liver cells because they could only find twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in each cell. Another researcher invented a method of separating the chromosomes, but still he thought he saw twenty-four pairs. It was not until 1955, when an Indonesian named Joe-Hin Tjio travelled from Spain to Sweden to work with Albert Levan, that the truth dawned. Tjio and Levan, using better techniques, plainly saw twenty-three pairs. They even went back and counted twenty-three pairs in photographs in books where the caption stated that there were twenty-four pairs. There are none so blind as do not wish to see." (Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, p 23-24)The correct number of chromosomes could have been discerned, one would think, during the almost 35 years involved in the events above. The most daunting realization is that the double heliacal form of DNA was discerned in 1953, two years before this chromosome count was corrected.
I had no idea about the 24, 23 chromosome discovery. Interesting.
Trust the Science!
On a tangental note:
Nazi super cows: British farmer forced to destroy half his murderous herd of bio-engineered Heck cows after they try to kill staff
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