Zwei wichtige Genvarianten haben möglicherweise frühe domestizierte Pferde zahmer und physikalisch widerstandsfähiger, um einen Fahrer zu tragen

>Two [key gene variants](http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4581) may have made early domesticated horses more tame and more physically resilient to bearing a rider, researchers report August 28 in *Science*. The resulting horses were among the most significant advances in Bronze Age biotechnology.

>Ancient horse DNA suggests modern domesticated horses [originated in southwestern Russia more than 4,200 years ago](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-genes-modern-domestic-horses-origin-russia), Ludovic Orlando and his colleagues reported in 2021. While this revealed the where and when for the domestication of horses, says Orlando, a molecular archaeologist at the Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse in France, there were still unanswered questions about precisely what horse genes changed in those early populations.

[Read more here](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tamed-horses-rideable-genetic-mutation) and the [research article here](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4581).