June
22
/ 2017
According to an extensive DNA analysis of cat genes the domestic cat is descended from wild cats that were tamed twice; once in the Near East and then in Egypt. The study suggests that cats lived for thousands of years alongside humans before they were eventually domesticated. From “Hunters” to Pets Cats have traditionally been an important animal to human society as a pest-control agent, object of worship and companion animal. But in reality, we didn’t know much about its domestication process and early anthropogenic dispersal until recently. As Nature reports, after scientists used ancient DNA analysis of geographically and temporally widespread archaeological cat remains, they discovered that both the Near Eastern and Egyptian populations of Felis silvestris lybica contributed
