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The Palaeogenetics of Cat Dispersal in the Ancient World
PaperThis study sequenced ancient DNA from cat remains spanning roughly ten thousand years across Europe, the Near East, and Africa to trace how cats spread alongside humans. The authors identified two maj…
Claudio Ottoni, Eva-Maria Geigl, Thierry Grange, et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2017
The Taming of the Cat: an accessible synthesis of wildcat ancestry and domestication
ReviewThis widely read popular-science synthesis distilled the molecular findings on wildcat systematics and cat domestication for a general audience. Written by researchers central to the foundational wild…
Driscoll CA, Clutton-Brock J, Kitchener AC, O'Brien SJ · Scientific American · 2009
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