How early herdsman created the modern sheep from the mouflon

Modern domestic sheep (Ovis aries) evolved from the Asiatic mouflon (Ovis gmelini orientalis), a wild sheep species native to mountainous regions of the Near East, including the Caucasus, Anatolia, and Zagros Mountains biologyinsights.com+1. These animals were smaller (25–55 kg) with reddish-brown coats, dark back stripes, and light saddle patches, and had large curved horns in males biologyinsigh...