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Jun 19, 2017 · Getty Images. Domestic cats were originally tamed from the wildcat. In the study, researchers extracted mitochondrial DNA (which is passed down the maternal line) from more than 200 ancient...
May 2, 2017 · How did scientists determine how house cats spread around the world (or, at least, the Old World)? Geneticists analyzed the mitochondrial DNA of 209 domestic cats found at 30 archaeological sites in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Jun 19, 2017 · Researchers wanted to know: How did these two separate cat-doms lead to today's global feline success? That wasn’t a question that could be answered with modern cat genetics alone.
Jun 21, 2017 · The evidence shows cat domestication began about 9,000 years ago in the Near East, where farming started and then spread into Europe around 6,400 years ago. A second wave of cat domestication happened in ancient Egypt.
Jun 19, 2017 · BBC News. The domestic cat is descended from wild cats that were tamed twice - in the Near East and then Egypt, according to the largest study of its kind. Farmers in the Near East were probably...
Sep 1, 2015 · Researchers examined DNA belonging to nearly 1,000 wildcats and domestic cats from across the Old World to determine which subspecies of the wildcat, Felis silvestris, gave rise to the house...
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Nov 19, 2019 · The evidence from Ottoni’s study also gives an explanation for the way cats spread around the world. By analyzing the ancient DNA of cat remains found in port cities, the scientists concluded that cats were brought along on ships, most likely to help protect food storages on board by killing rodents (Ottoni et al., 2017).
