From: Rick McCallister
Message: 49194
Date: 2007-06-30
> But, how could they prove that this mitochondrialpadding-top:10px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:77%;margin:0;}
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> De: alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...>
> Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 29 de Junho de 2007 21:29:59
> Assunto: [tied] The cat domestication happened more
> than 100,000 years ago
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> Maybe to review the PIE words for cat? and their
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> http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/science/
> nature/6251434. stm
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> At least five female ancestors from the region gave
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> domestic cats alive today, scientists believe.
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> The earliest archaeological evidence of cat
> domestication dates back
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> 9,500 years, when cats were thought to have lived
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> However, the new results show the house cat lineage
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> Ancestors of domestic cats are now thought to have
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> their wild relatives and started living with humans
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> 130,000 years ago.
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> The moggy's ancestor may have been like this wild
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> The researchers focused on DNA in the mitochondria,
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> of cells which supply energy and have their own
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> Comparison of the genetic sequences enabled
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> The scientists found the cats fell into distinctive
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> The results show that, apart from accidental
> cross-breeding, European
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> wildcats are not part of the domestic moggy's family
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> Neither are the Central Asian wildcat, the Southern
> African wildcat,
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> or the Chinese desert cat.
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> But domestic cats formed a clade with some wildcats
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> East, suggesting that today's moggy stems from the
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