Mouflon and being black on the shoulders. In Corsica this animal is named Mufro. Pallas, grouping goats and sheep together into a single genus "Aegoceros", distinguished the mouflon from the argali at species level in 1811 ("Ae. musimon" and "Ae. argali" respectively). In 1840 Blyth proposed that the Armenian and Cypriot sheep were also separate species, which he named "Ovis Gmelinii" (after "the younger Gmelin") and "O. Ophion" (from a name recorded by Pliny). Current taxonomy in some sources such as MSW and ITIS treats the mouflons and urials as subspecies of the domestic sheep, "Ovis aries" Linn. 1758. However ICZN
Dmitry Belyayev (zoologist) also been of great interest to Darwin. It was recognized that domesticated animals differ in several ways from their wild counterparts, but it was not known what principle of selection had guided the Neolithic farmers who had first domesticated these species thousands of years ago. Belyayev's hypothesis was that "all domesticated species had been selected for a single criterion: tameness." Belyayev further theorized that this attribute "had dragged along with it most of the other features that distinguish domestic animals from their wild forebears, like droopy ears, patches of white in the fur and changes in skull shape." In other