A Brief History Of Cats - How We Domesticated Cats

We've lived alongside cats for over 10,000 years. But to say we've domesticated them might be a stretch. Today, for lulz, we dive into our complex relationship with cats over the years, and how they became Lords of the Internet.
SOURCES:
"A Brief History of House Cats"
www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
"How Cats Became Domesticated"
www.iflscience.com/plants-and...
"Humans and Cats Have a Strange, Complicated History"
nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/...
"When Cats Became Comrades"
www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/...
"The genes that turned wildcats into kitty cats"
www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/...
And for fun...
"Even in the 1870s, humans were obsessed with ridiculous photos of cats"
io9.gizmodo.com/5900334/even-...

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