The goal of this project is to use the feral European Mouflon as a model system to study the effects of demographic history, changing selection pressures, and anthropogenic interferences on the genome. The project is divided into two specific (sub)aims: (1) assess to what degree long-term feral populations are time capsules of earlier and primitive of the domesticated sheep and (2) detect how natural and sexual selection shaped feral populations since their return to the wild. To achieve these aims, I will study genetic data of domesticated and feral sheep from different time periods and geographic regions. I will perform population genomic analyses to study demographic history and to study local adaptation.