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Domestic Cat's DNA Traced Back 100,000 Years

Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat.Domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that interbred well over 100,000 years ago, new research indicates."House cats — which includes fancy breeds and feral cats — those cats all form a genetic group that is virtually indistinguishable from ones in the Middle East," said Stephen J. O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute ."So, domestication, for sure, took place in the Middle East where those cats live today," added O'Brien, co-author of a paper appearing in this week's online edition of the journal Science .• Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Natural Science Center.Carlos Driscoll, of Oxford University and NCI, and an international team of researchers studied the origins of those loving and aloof, graceful and finicky pets that entertain or supervise millions of homes.It's serious research, because cats are a model for some human...

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