Domestication led to horse color explosion

Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 17:07 in Biology & Nature

The earliest domesticators of horses preferred their steeds colorful instead of color dull, according to a new study that determined breeding by humans caused horses to produce a veritable paint book of coat color shades and patterns.

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