[HN Gopher] Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Pl...
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       Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and
       northern Rockies
        
       Author : BerislavLopac
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2023-06-06 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | readthenotes1 wrote:
       | Impossible to read in dark mode...
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       | Question: did it really take 60 authors to write the article?
        
         | mmmrtl wrote:
         | You can see author contributions at the end. It took 5 to write
         | it, and everyone else to get the samples, perform experiments,
         | analyze data, etc. Pretty typical for genomics.
        
           | jjulius wrote:
           | >You can see author contributions at the end.
           | 
           | GP could probably do well to take a cue from their own
           | username...
        
         | InitialLastName wrote:
         | No, it took 60 researchers (geneticists, archaeologists,
         | radiocarbon dating specialists) to collect and analyze the data
         | involved in drawing a fairly sweeping conclusion involving a
         | wide array of evidence from a large portion of the continent.
         | They all deserve credit for their contributions, even if they
         | didn't directly contribute in an authorial sense.
        
       | api_or_ipa wrote:
       | Would love to read this, but the website has no zoom buttons and
       | if I zoom in using my browser and click anywhere, that annoying
       | sidebar screws everything up.
       | 
       | Can't find the doc on scihub. Anyone have a PDF they can share?
        
         | AlotOfReading wrote:
         | https://extension.usu.edu/freesnetwork/Tayloretal2023Earlydi...
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         | Will Taylor (lead author) is pretty nice guy from past
         | experience working with him. He would probably be happy to
         | provide drafts if you reach out to him privately. He uses his
         | twitter pretty frequently (@wtt_taylor) when he's not in the
         | field, and he has a rarely checked mastodon account
         | @archaeozoo@fediscience.org if you don't like twitter. Some of
         | his other papers are available on his academia.edu page.
        
       | joshe wrote:
       | TLDR version: horses broadly used in the American west (like New
       | Mexico) just 30 years after Spanish arrival (so 1520ish). Earlier
       | guess was that it was much later, 1700ish coming from the east to
       | west across North America.
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       | Good context from the author of 1491 here, including the
       | intricacies that required so much collaboration:
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       | https://twitter.com/CharlesCMann/status/1641537159973707777
        
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