New Data on Cat Domestication

Bob Greene: Researchers have confirmed a critical hypothesis about the domestication of cats that saw their ancestors transmogrify from wild cats to domesticated pet-like creatures who own many human families throughout the world. This was the beginning of our transformation from nomadic hunter gatherers, of course, to farmers during the agricultural revolution. And agrarian societies eventually will produce many other revolutionary things like grain stores and persistent refuse piles that attract rodents like mice. The paper describes this as something I liked and said, and I quote, which led to a synanthropic trinity between humans, rodents and felids,.