As Europeans started sailing to the New World, so did cats! Since cats killed rodents and mice, they were brought aboard ships to keep the rodent population at bay. Once the ships landed, the cats escaped and started populating the Americas. Domesticated Cats Today Today, cats are one of ...
“These wolves would have had an advantage over other wolves, and the strong selection pressure on friendliness had a whole lot of byproducts, like the physical differences we see in dogs,” he says. “This is self-domestication. We did not domesticate dogs. Dogs domesticated themselves.” A...