When did cats begin to invade the world?

This world is made up of "bosses", and humans offer it all to them - cats.

People often say that this world is really a cat. Indeed, "bosses" are like being born to be served by humans.

However, all over the world, except for Antarctica, all continents have boss footprints.

People often say that this world is really a cat.

But the origin of this "invasion" process is still being debated by scientists. As far as conception is concerned, the ancient Egyptians were the first characters to bring cats back to humans.

However, it turns out that cats have a deeper origin than that, and that has been officially confirmed by the largest cat study ever.

Cats are domesticated from a much longer time than people imagine.

Specifically, experts from the Academy of Jacques Monod (France) pointed out that in history, there were two times domesticated cats. And the first to do that is the race of the Near East countries (Near East - the region includes many unknown countries in the history of Southwest Asia).

Accordingly, farmers from the Near East successfully tamed wild cats from 9,000 years ago. Several thousand years later, the ancient Egyptians in turn continued this process.

"There are two times that cats are domesticated - once in the Near East , and once a long time later in Egypt, " said Eva-Maria Geigl, the team leader.

"Cats are then traveled around the world through merchant ships. These are the two lines of ancestral cats of modern cats."

Cats were originally released into fields or warehouses on merchant ships to kill rats.

From the mouse killing tool to . "daddy" of every family

Cats are not always lazy creatures, scurrying around the house like today's bosses.

Experts said cats were initially released into fields or warehouses on merchant ships to kill rats. They spend thousands of years doing that, before officially becoming human pets.

Cat bones appear in many ancient tombs.

To get results, the team isolated mitochondrial DNA (which is passed on from generation to generation) of more than 200 ancient cat breeds. DNA sources come from Viking tombs, Egyptian mummies, and stone period relics.

As a result, as indicated, DNA markers show that cats are domesticated from 9000 years ago in the Near East. Several thousand years later, cats appeared in Europe during the Roman period and thanks to Viking ships.

One notable point is that the tabby cat appears only in the Middle Ages. DNA traces show that they are mutant genes, and only appear in western Turkish cats in the 14th century.

The cat is a mutant gene that only appeared in the Middle Ages.

"There are very few traits of cats that changed in the 19th century, at least compared to dogs. Cats are a combination of many useful traits, so it doesn't need to change."

The study was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.