The Near Eastern cats had fairly high levels of nitrogen-15. But what's more important is that the cats' levels lined up very closely with the nitrogen-15 levels in the bones of local crop-eating ...

DNA shows domestic cat originated in Near East. 4 July 2007 ... the central Asian wildcat, the Chinese desert cat and the Near Eastern wildcat. ...

All of the domestic cats – from the fancy breeds to feral tabbies – fell within the Near Eastern wildcat group. Furthermore, lap cats descended from five distinct mitochondrial DNA lineages.

The Old World wildcat ranges from Scotland to China and down into Africa, but a new DNA study indicates that just one of its lineages, that of the Near Eastern wildcat, gave rise to today’s ...

June 19 (UPI) --New genetic analysis suggests cats first became domesticated by farmers in the Near East and ancient Egypt some 10,000 years ago.There are five subspecies of the wildcat, Felis ...