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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.
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...
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...
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.
Jun 19, 2017 · Humans brought cats onto ships to catch mice and, in the process, spread cats all around the world. Compared to many other animals, cats have also changed very little in the...
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Jun 19, 2017 · In a new comprehensive study of the spread of domesticated cats, DNA analysis suggests that cats lived for thousands of years alongside humans before they were domesticated.
