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How Humans Created Cats (Following the invention
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/how-humans-created-cats/282391/
Cats May Have Been On Road To Domestication
In Chinese Farming Villages 5,300 Years Ago
By Roxanne Palmer, International Business Times,
December 16 2013
http://www.ibtimes.com/cats-may-have-been-road-domestication-chinese-farming-villages-5300-years-ago-1510952
Cat domestication may date back more than 5,000
years, USA Today, December 16, 2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/cat-domestication-china/4034759/
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http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/12/12/1311439110
Merry Christmas,
Paul H.
