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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute.

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Cats and humans have been adopting each other for millennia.

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Four-thousand-year-old Egyptian art provides evidence of cat domestication.

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A 9,500-year-old grave in Cyprus revealed a wildcat near a human.

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But the act of domestication in between those periods has been fuzzy in the archaeological record.

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Now research from China fills in some of the gap.

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In the remains of a 5,300-year-old agricultural village, scientists found eight bones that belonged to at least two cats.

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The date is 3,000 years earlier than previous estimates of Chinese cat domestication.

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The researchers analyzed human, cat and rodent bones.

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The size the cats indicates domestication, as they're smaller than their wild European relatives.

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Isotopes showed they'd all eaten a fair amount of millet.

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One of the cats lived to a particularly old age, while the other ate less meat and more millet than a cat might prefer.

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The research is in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

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The scientists theorize the cats were attracted to rodents and grain in villages, and that people cared for the cats to help control the rodents.

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Thus creating the mutually beneficial relationship that cats and people still enjoy.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

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