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SUBMITTER: Manning K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4668083 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Manning Katie K Timpson Adrian A Shennan Stephen S Crema Enrico E
PloS one 20151202 12
Our analysis of over 28,000 osteometric measurements from fossil remains dating between c. 5600 and 1500 BCE reveals a substantial reduction in body mass of 33% in Neolithic central European domestic cattle. We investigate various plausible explanations for this phenotypic adaptation, dismissing climatic change as a causal factor, and further rejecting the hypothesis that it was caused by an increase in the proportion of smaller adult females in the population. Instead we find some support for t ...[more]