山羊的起源驯化和品种形成

回顾了山羊野祖及其驯化传播过程的传统观点。以考古学、历史学和畜牧学研究结果为依据，提出了家养山羊多地起源的观点，并认为中国是山羊早期独立驯化地之一。认为各地方山羊品种形成是在自然选择和人工选择作用下长期适应的结果，中国北方地区山羊品种形成过程中包含了古代西域山羊的血统。

Origination, Domestication and Breeds Formation of Goat

The paper summed up the troditional views about wild orignations of domestic goat as well as their domestication and propagation. Based oh the abundant results of archaeology, history and animal science researches, a new consider which domestic goat orignated from more than one place and China is one of the goat independently domesticating areas was put forward. It was considered that breeds of native goat were the results of long-term adaption to natural and artificvial selections,and native goat breeds in North China were mixed with certain part of extraction of ancient goat in Western Regions in their forming process