Rabbit's Domestication Haday May Be Totally Wrong (busy)

The story, which has long been believed on how and when the rabbits are domesticated, may have been completely wrong.

Rabbits have spread from the Iberian Peninsula and Southern France to the world, but scientists are still debating how these animals may have been domesticated. C: Wikicommons

The researchers thought that they knew when the rabbits were domesticated.

According to a commonly told story, in 600 AD Pope Gregory declared that some kind of rabbit called laurice was fish and that it could be renewed during the Easter period and then the priests in southern France domesticated the rabbits.

But this story had a small problem: the story was not right. In addition to the fact that rabbits are a type of fish, it was also a forgery, according to a research on the domestication of rabbits.

(According to Antique DNA, the Keds themselves decided to domesticate)

"Papa Gregory never said anything about rabbits and there is no evidence that rabbits are assumed to be fish," archaeologist Evan Irving-Pease of Oxford University says.

Evan Irving-Pease and his colleagues discovered that scientists mixed Papa Gregory and St. Gregory. St. Gregory made a statement for a man named Roccolenus, "He usually ate a young rabbit during the Holy Easter period."

This confusion has, in a way, become a legend about the domestication of rabbits.

A map showing the distribution of rabbits in medieval western Europe. The gray area shows the approximate natural zone of the European rabbit. The colored dots indicate the oldest archaeologically documented records of the rabbits in those regions. C: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Moreover, according to the new research, DNA evidence can not narrow the rabbit taming until just that turn. The domestication of the rabbits was not a single event, and it was a process that did not have a clear onset. For similar reasons, scientists have difficulty determining where and when other animals are domesticated for the first time.

Geneticist Leif Andersson of Uppsala University in Sweden admits that genetic data can not prove that domestication of the rabbit is around 600 AD. However, he says, "it is impossible to claim that the rabbit taming at that time did not happen."

(There is the effect of rabbits when Neanderthals disappear)

Domestication practices were well known until then, he said. "It is possible that farmers in southern France, who are looking at the taste of French priests or rabbit meat, have made efforts to collect rabbits. So these rabbits may eventually become the founding population of domestic rabbits. "

The ancient DNA, which can be found in the old rabbit bones, can someday help solve these controversies.