Cat domestication traced to Chinese farmers 5,300 years ago

Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 09:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Five-thousand years before it was immortalized in a British nursery rhyme, the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt was doing just fine living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of...

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