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New results show that house cat lineage is far older than previously thought. Ancestors of domestic cats are now thought to have broken away from their wild relatives and started living with humans as early as 130,000 years ago.
Domestic cats around the world can trace their origins back to the Middle East’s Fertile Crescent - present-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Israel - but apart from accidental cross-breeding, European wildcats are not part of the domestic moggy’s family tree. Neither are the Central Asian wildcat, the Southern African wildcat, nor the Chinese desert cat.
DNA traces origin of domestic cat
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