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 NeedsMoreCoffee rated 16 months ago - From the page: "For the study, published today in the journal Science, an international team studied genetic material from 979 domestic cats and their wild relatives, focusing on one kind of genetic material, called mitochondrial DNA.
Prof David Macdonald, who worked with Carlos Driscoll at ...
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- ZimZalabim rated 15 months ago
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Cats May Be Our Oldest Friends
The dog is usually thought of as man's best friend. But a genetic study published today suggests that cats may actually have been a more constant companion of humans over the millennia.
Ancestors of domestic cats are now believed to have started living alongside humans any time from about 10,000 to 130,000 years ago. In the case of dogs, an earlier DNA study showed that they originated from east Asian wolves a mere 15,000 years ago.
- Lilyann rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "Ancestors of domestic cats are now believed to have started living alongside humans any time from about 10,000 to 130,000 years ago. In the case of dogs, an earlier DNA study showed that they originated from east Asian wolves a mere 15,000 years ago."
- Marcus-Lycus rated 16 months ago
- Cool article on cats.
- spectrekitty rated 16 months ago
- From the page:
"Ancestors of domestic cats are now believed to have started living alongside humans any time from about 10,000 to 130,000 years ago. In the case of dogs, an earlier DNA study showed that they originated from east Asian wolves a mere 15,000 years ago.
"The new DNA evidence shows that cats around the world can trace their origins to the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, which stretches from the eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, revealing how at least five female ancestors from the region gave rise to all the domestic cats alive today.
"The 'ubermoggy' - the ancestor of these founding felines - was a wildcat of the species F.s. libyca, which lives on today in the remote deserts of the Middle East."
Cool beans !
- parataxic rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "the new research shows that cats probably domesticated themselves" Figures!
- BurkinaLoveFaso rated 16 months ago
- Ancestors of domestic cats are now believed to have started living alongside humans any time from about 10,000 to 130,000 years ago. In the case of dogs, an earlier DNA study showed that they originated from east Asian wolves a mere 15,000 years ago.
- flyingrose rated 16 months ago
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That "wildcat" looks remarkably more like a domestic cat than a wild one.
- amthysteyes2 rated 16 months ago
- "a mere 15,000 years ago" oh yes, thats practically yesterday...
- marimessias rated 16 months ago
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Ancestors of domestic cats are now believed to have started living alongside humans any time from about 10,000 to 130,000 years ago. In the case of dogs, an earlier DNA study showed that they originated from east Asian wolves a mere 15,000 years ago.
- NeedsMoreCoffee rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "For the study, published today in the journal Science, an international team studied genetic material from 979 domestic cats and their wild relatives, focusing on one kind of genetic material, called mitochondrial DNA.
Prof David Macdonald, who worked with Carlos Driscoll at Oxford University, said: "We found five distinct lineages dating back a hundred thousand years prior to any archaeological record of cat domestication. These appear to come from at least five female cats from the Near East whose descendants have been transported across the world by humans."
The earliest archaeological evidence for cat domestication only stretches back 9,500 years ago and is found in Cyprus.
However, the new research shows that cats probably domesticated themselves at first, attracted by the rats and mice that lived around human settlements when hunter-gatherers settled in agricultural villages in the Fertile Crescent up to 130,000 years ago."
"Man's best friend" indeed! *Logs off to go snuggle the cats*
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