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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.
Jun 19, 2017 · 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.
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 · 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.
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...
Aug 14, 2023 · In general, evidence suggests cats spread throughout the world in maritime vessels and found in port cities. Passengers on the Mayflower and residents of Jamestown brought mousers with them to eat rodents and also for good luck, another nature ecology phenomenon.
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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.