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Since the domestication of cattle more than 10,000 years ago, cattle have been critical in the shift of human society from nomadic hunter-gatherers to sedentary farming communities across most of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Although our understanding of ancestral population relationships is limited, cattle domestication is thought to have occurred on two or three occasions, giving rise to the taurine...