A critical assessment of markers of initial domestication in goats (Capra hircus)

Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 181-208

  Zeder, Melinda A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

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