Did Mice Domesticate The House Cat [?]

Discover ^ | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | Jocelyn Rice

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Driscoll gathered genetic material from nearly one thousand domestic and wild cats to trace the house kitty's family tree back to its roots. The depth and diversity of that tree suggest that the process of domestication took place over a widespread area and a long period of time... As humans made the transition from hunting and gathering to farming, they created concentrated, permanent stores of food. Stockpiles of grain attracted hungry mice, which in turn drew hungry feral cats... For a cat raiding a grain store in a primitive village, being tolerant of humans became an evolutionary advantage. Eventually, as villages grew, friendlier cats became more and more segregated from their wilder brethren, with natural selection acting upon the new populations of village kitties to make them increasingly docile.

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Cats invented civilization in order to have slaves build them nice houses to live in and comfy furniture to sleep on.

Not to mention the gourmet food...

Let's face it, we 'chop & slave to get our pay' and then spend it on the cat!!

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(Just had to put in one dog pic...)

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Heh... the whale one got to me...

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I laughed myself silly over all of those.