What can be more interesting to write about than cat history, when you're sitting with [Lilo] in your lap?
Science has an article about the history of the cats, updated after DNA-analysis:
"Modern cats appear to have originated in Asia 10 million years ago and undertook a series of 10 intercontinental migrations that correlate with major fluctuations in sea level."
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/311/5757/12g
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/311/5757/73
New York Time's story about it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/science/06cats.html
And the Danish Ingeniøren (In Danish)
http://ing.dk/article/20060108/NATUR/101130001
2004-04-08, Science had another article about the domistication of the cat, because then a 9500 year old cat skeleton was found in a grave:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2004/408/1 |