This
is evidence. This is scientific publication standard citation, the Harvard style, and the highest possible representation of evidence in any forum, online or in scientific publications. Not only that, but the paper I have cited cites its own sources as well, many of which are also available on the PubMed site. My professors are very strict about Harvard citation, especially of published papers such as
Microsatellite diversity suggests different histories for Mediterranean and Northern European cattle populations, Proc Biol Sci. 2005 September 7; 272(1574): 1837–1843. This is the very
opposite of hearsay.
If you are holding me to some higher level of presentation of evidence, I am sorry, but this is as high as it gets, and I'm not about to muddle together some ethereal new standard of evidence presentation for a discussion about the origin of British cows in a thread about bloody pancake day.