[tied] Re: The cat domestication happened more than 100,000 years

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-07-02 00:16, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > If the cats really have 100,000 years of domestication...
>
> No, no, they have not. Daniel has already explained what the

original

> article in Science actually says. Some of the lineages within the
> species _Felis sylvestris_ diverged more than 100,000 years ago,

but

> that happened without human help, long before the domestication of

one

> of the wildcat subspecies (_F. s. lybica_). Thae authors make it

clear

> that cats were probably domesticated in the agricultural

(Neolithic)

> setting of the Fertile Crescent. See the abstract:
>
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1139518
>
> Piotr
>

The authors said: "probably domesticated in the agricultural
(Neolithic) setting)"...This assertion is so vague as the 'probably'-
word is.

But the logic here is more simple:
1. Domestication means a new species.
2. No new species later (I mean an important group), no
domestication later

This logic is clear here...doesn't matter what the authors said in
order not to arrive against "the cat-domestication-dogma"
(=> 'agricultural->mouse->cat')

Marius