Two groundbreaking studies challenge the traditional timeline of cat domestication, highlighting the pivotal influence of religious worship.

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By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

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New research has overturned everything we thought we knew about cat domestication. Forget the theory that cats simply ...

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“We demonstrate that domestic cats did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers, as previously thought,” they write.