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 Topic: Pigs are from Turkey - and six other places!

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  • Pigs are from Turkey - and six other places!
     OP - June 19, 2012, 02:51 PM
    Comment blaming pigs on white folks has got me googling! 

    Sorry, they are from Islamic Turkey!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4337435.stm

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    Pigs were domesticated independently at least seven times around the globe, a new study has found.
    The discovery was made by linking the DNA of tame porkers with their wild relatives, Science magazine reports.

    Researchers found farmed pigs in several locations were closely related to wild boar in the same region, suggesting local domestication.

    This challenges the notion that boar were tamed just twice before being transported throughout the world.

    "Many archaeologists have assumed the pig was domesticated in no more than two areas of the world, the Near East and the Far East, but our findings turn this theory on its head," said Keith Dobney, of the University of Durham, UK.

    "Our study shows that domestication also occurred independently in Central Europe, Italy, Northern India, South East Asia and maybe even Island South East Asia."


    Now, I would assume the Islamic ban only applies to near Eastern breeds.....
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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