Goats tell us how human values changed through time by showing how and where we moved animals through trade or migration.
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Feral Irish Goats around Glendalough, Ireland (Credit: diego_cue / CC BY-SA 3.0)
A recent study reveals that the Old Irish Goat shares a genetic link with domestic goats that lived in Ireland millennia ago. The study, led by University College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast, suggests that this rare goat breed represents a continuous Irish lineage stretching back 3,000 years to the late Bronze Age.
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