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Anthropology

wnylib

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2. Nah, I think that, for all this guy's efforts

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Wed Sep 1, 2021, 12:35 AM

Sep 2021

to explain the relationship between cats and humans, he's got it backwards.

It is cats who domesticated humans. Cats demonstrated what they could do for us and our ancestors were humbly honored to have been chosen by such regal beings to receive their assistance. From that time on, we became dependent on cats, not vice versa.

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Nah, I think that, for all this guy's efforts wnylib Sep 2021 #2