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1. Goats

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   The initial phase of goat domestication is generally placed within the Near East, concurrent with early cereal cultivation. Archaeological evidence suggests that the domestication threshold—the point at which behavioral plasticity outweighs innate wariness—was achieved rapidly, possibly due to the goat's unusual pre-adaptation to consuming quartz-rich flora, which primes the gut microbiome for rapid adaptation to…