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Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar feline companions first stepped out of Africa and into homes, ships and cities ...

Through us, cats have conquered the world, living almost everywhere humans do. Yet, we’ve never fully understood how they decided to tolerate us—or when that relationship truly began. For decades, ...