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“Cats began their unique relationship with humans 10,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, the geographic region where some of the earliest developme
by hindsightbias 4y ago
“Cats began their unique relationship with humans 10,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, the geographic region where some of the earliest developments in human civilization occurred ”
Correlation or causation?
- treis 4y agoSurely causation. Farmers store crops which attract rodents which attract felines. Wild cats that mind their manners do better in this environment. Eventually wild cats become the kitty cats we know today.
- wpietri 4y agoI think they were suggesting that causality could run the other way.
- shkkmo 4y agoThat wild cats infected humans so that humans would develope agriculture that would attract rodents for the cats to eat? That hypothesis doesn't seem very plausible...
- wpietri 4y agoThat civilization bootstrapped due to brain chemistry changes via human/cat association.
- klipt 4y agoThis catspiracy goes all the way to the top!
- klyrs 4y agoCat infects human A, who feeds cat in a fit of unprecedented affection. Human B sees another human with a cat and wants to be their friend. Repeat until cat friend puddle is too large for local flora to sustain. Human Z invents agriculture, attracting rats. I'm not sure this is terribly plausible, but I do have a cat on my lap.