Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/576/en

Sheep and goats, endowed with all the characteristics of their domesticated state, appear from the end of the ninth millennium B.C. onward in the mountain regions of south and west Asia. In the sheep these characteristics are the following: smaller in form than the wild type, high variability of body size, no seasonal change of coat, the transformation of the coat into a continuously growing wool fleece, vivid coloring and patterning. A similar diversity of outward appearance is shown by the goats, extending even to the coat transformed into wool in the Angora and Cashmere goats.