High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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The domestication of the horse, once thought to be a single event on the Eurasian steppe around 3500 BCE, is now understood as a considerably messier affair. Recent genomic analyses of ancient equine remains have revealed at least two distinct lineages of early domestication, only one of which contributed substantially to modern horse populations. The Botai culture of Kazakhstan, long credited with the first domestication, appears instead to have tamed a lineage that left almost no genetic trace in today's horses. The ancestors of virtually all modern breeds were domesticated separately, roughly a thousand years later, in the western Eurasian steppe.
This revision matters beyond the narrow confines of archaeozoology. It complicates the tidy narrative in which a single innovation diffused outward, transforming warfare, trade, and mobility in its wake. The evidence instead suggests parallel experiments, dead ends, and eventual replacement—a pattern more characteristic of biological evolution than of the linear 'march of progress' still favored in popular history. If domestication was not a singular breakthrough but a series of attempts, then the story we tell about human ingenuity must adjust accordingly: not as a lone spark that catches, but as a scattered kindling from which, sometimes, a fire survives.
Which statement best captures how the two central ideas of the passage relate?
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