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All cattle are descendants from a herd of about 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox more than 10,000 years ago, a genetic study said.
In 2015, a team of international researchers extracted DNA from the bones of domestic cattle in Iran and noticed how small the differences were between the DNA from the ancient cows and from modern cows.