The cradle of cat domestication

24/11/2022 30 min
The cradle of cat domestication

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, Dr Sara Nilson (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), Dr Jared Decker (University of Missouri) and Prof. Leslie Lyons (University of Missouri) discuss their quest to find the geographical origins of cat domestication.

This episode explores the recent Heredity paper: “Genetics of randomly bred cats support the cradle of cat domestication being in the Near East” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-022-00568-4