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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> But, how could they prove that this mitochondrial common ancestral
linneage was "domestic" ?
>
they consider the wild cats & the doemstic ones belonging to the same
species sometimes in the past.
Based on the mitochondrial differences among today species they
compute "an estimated split time" of different species
This is place around 130000 years ago.
In addition they proved that all today domestic cats belongs to 5
female ancestors...
Now to come to your question:
It's simple : Because there is no other big split of "domestic cats"
since than....
Marius