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Figure 95 Tim Short and his family at New Zealand's Mount Tutu Nature Reserve show off
their unique Mount Tutu sheep, bred over a period of twenty years from a Romney-Perendale
cross.
some ancestral population of wild goats was genetically diverse enough to
give rise to all present-day goats, remains to be determined. Many wild goat
species have recently gone extinct, and it will be necessary to obtain DNA
from their remains in order to untangle the details of how goats were domes-
ticated.
Sheep present a similar picture, though here the point of origin is more
defi nitely the Fertile Crescent. Again, multiple independent domestications
are likely, and more than one wild sheep species may have been involved.
 
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