domestication
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Except for a few deliberate crosses, researchers have found little evidence of genetic mixing after domestication established separate lineages.
From Science Daily
The new evidence shows cat domestication didn't start at the dawn of agriculture - in the Levant.
From BBC
Genetic sequencing for the latest study suggests that the species has a “single domestication origin” in East Asia, the researchers wrote.
From New York Times
An analysis in 2018 concluded that “the concept of a ‘strain’ does not reflect the crop domestication, breeding programs or plant chemistry.”
From Washington Post
In 2004, French archaeologists reported what was described at the time as the earliest historical record of cat domestication, in a 9,500-year-old burial site.
From Reuters
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