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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.
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 · 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 cat remains that ...
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 · As agriculture and permanent human settlements spread from the Fertile Crescent to the rest of the world, so, too, did domestic cats. The map shows the earliest putative occurrences of domestic...
Jul 10, 2017 · Researchers had only the DNA from modern cats to work with. These data showed that house cats had been tamed from African wildcats. What was not clear was when domesticated cats began to spread around the world. Now, new ways of studying ancient DNA are pointing to some answers.
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Jun 21, 2017 · The researchers analysed DNA from over 200 cat remains and found that the spread of this Near East lineage into Europe occurred as early as 6,400 years ago, before a second wave of cat domestication a few thousand years later in ancient Egypt.
