* Till skillnad från andra domesticerade varelser, husets katt bidrar lite för människors överlevnad. Forskare har därför undrade hur och varför katter kom att bo bland människor.
* Experter traditionellt trott att egyptierna var de första att HEMkatten några 3600 år sedan.
* Men de senaste genetiska och arkeologiska upptäckter visar att katten tämjande inleddes den bördiga halvmånen ", kanske runt 10.000 år sedan, när jordbruket kom igång.
* Resultaten tyder på att katter började göra sig hemma runt människor att dra fördel av de möss och matresterna i deras bosättningar.

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The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals skrev:(From the August 2009 Scientific American Magazine )
Paleoanthropologists know more about Neandertals than any other extinct human. But their demise remains a mystery, one that gets curiouser and curiouser

* Neandertals, our closest relatives, ruled Europe and western Asia for more than 200,000 years. But sometime after 28,000 years ago, they vanished.
* Scientists have long debated what led to their disappearance. The latest extinction theories focus on climate change and subtle differences in behavior and biology that might have given modern humans an advantage over the Neandertals.
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As for the last known Neandertals, the ones who lived in Gibraltar’s seaside caves some 28,000 years ago, Finlayson is certain that they did not spend their days competing with moderns, because moderns seem not to have settled there until thousands of years after the Neandertals were gone. The rest of their story, however, remains to be discovered.

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The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals skrev:(From the August 2009 Scientific American Magazine )
Paleoanthropologists know more about Neandertals than any other extinct human. But their demise remains a mystery, one that gets curiouser and curiouser

* Neandertals, our closest relatives, ruled Europe and western Asia for more than 200,000 years. But sometime after 28,000 years ago, they vanished.
* Scientists have long debated what led to their disappearance. The latest extinction theories focus on climate change and subtle differences in behavior and biology that might have given modern humans an advantage over the Neandertals.
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As for the last known Neandertals, the ones who lived in Gibraltar’s seaside caves some 28,000 years ago, Finlayson is certain that they did not spend their days competing with moderns, because moderns seem not to have settled there until thousands of years after the Neandertals were gone. The rest of their story, however, remains to be discovered.

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