The Doñana Biological Station – CSIC participates in a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research between western and traditional Indigenous science to study the evolutionary history of the horse. This collaboration opens the way to repair history and create co-designing strategies for a more sustainable future.

Results have been published in the journal Science and show, contrary to what European historic records caputred, that Indigenous people raised horses since, at...

When a population shows a marked morphological change, it is important to know whether that population is genetically distinct; if it is not, the novel trait could correspond to an adaptation that might be of great ecological interest. Here, a subspecies of water shrew, Neomys fodiens niethammeri, which is found in a narrow strip of the northern Iberian Peninsula was studied.