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Weblogs - Cats domesticated themselves? All domestic cats are
descended from at least five common ancestors from the Near
East, Oxford University scientists and their collaborators have
discovered. The new research, published in this week’s Science,
also suggests that the domestic cat’s ancestors diverged from
the ancestors of other populations of today’s wildcats around
130,000 years ago, far earlier than previously suspected. in
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diet is very efficient in terms of how much land is needed to
support it. But adding some dairy products and a limited amount
of meat may actually increase this efficiency, Cornell
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