I have placed a URL on my website on the evolution of the cat. Not knowing zit about paleo, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the inofrmation, but I have...
Hi Anne, There really is not resolution between the difference in tastes of dog lovers and cat lovers. They are quite distinct types of domesticates. I have...
Hi Torfinn, Thank-you for the links. There are a lot more papers out there about the 46 individual chromosomal ancestries operating in 23 cooperative pairs in...
... of the ... Theres actually a few problems starting with the fact that Creodonts arent ancestral to Carnivora, as far as I know nobody suggests this anyway....
Dale: I've been following your comments about potentially incorrect or incomplete assumptions being drawn from sole reliance on mtDNA as an indicator of human...
... This is one of the primary research areas of the Libyo-Italian team - see the publications by Cremaschi, di Lernia, Manzi et al. ... Typical journalism....
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/blog.html It seems The Guardian, The Telegraph and others misquoted Chris Stringer about "rewriting prehistory" Dave Timpe...
All: I got this from ANTHRO-L. It is more about the ongoing H.floresiensis wrangle. I suspect some of you will be interested in the context. Anne G The...
Bob: Thanks for the link. There may be others dealing with cats and their ancestry, but it confirmed what I was attempting to convey about Felis "libyca" and...
Dave: Now why am I not surprised by this revelation? Anne G "Timpe, Dave" <dtimpe@...> wrote: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/blog.html It seems The...
I'm not saying that definitions of species and subspecies should be confused with the possibility of hybridization. There are a number of critters I know of,...
Dale: Just to make myself clear(since nobody around here seems to be talking paleoanthropology for the moment), I actually like most dogs I meet, and would...
I don't really know anything about creodonts. I do know that the earliest ancestor of cats was apparently the miacids, from which things like mongooses and...
All: I just downloaded a very interesting paper on what may have "happened" to Neandertals into my files. I'm uploading it to our files, which are by no means...
... earliest ancestor of cats was apparently the miacids, from which things like mongooses and civets, as well as members of the cat family, are descended. ...
... BobtheCat who weighs about 16 lbs., a semi-feral huge, yellow, furry monster my husband found at the Black Eagle Humane Society (Great Falls), leaves the...
... Interesting, esp. the fact that F. silvestris has a slightly larger brain. My mother 'collected' cats when she lived in Maine many years ago, and several...
... same ... Lynx is a genus and bobcats are one species in that genus, Lynx rufus, probably the most widely spread and general forager of what are normally...
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=your%20say&subclass=genera l&category=editorial%20opinion&story_id=375222&y=2005&m=3 Canberra Times Canberra,...
... Hi John, There is an old saying: Be careful what you ask for... I will try but I really suggest that you study the natural history of mtDNA, how it...
This is one of those "duh" pieces, but there are a few interesting details. I have shared exactly the same feelings about certain places, a sense of strong...
Anne: Get a Shi Tsuh! They are wonderful household dogs, smart, don't yap or bite, absolutely charming. The only lapdog I've ever admired. Ask anyone who's...
... Well when I lived in Maine long ago the received wisdom was that Coon Cats were longhairs that had bred with Bobcats or Lynx (large size, heavy bones, long...
... Yeah, right. I believe everything you write, but there are objections to getting a dog like that. I had a girlfriend once whose family had a shi tzu. When...
Maria: The Shih Tzu's I've met are perfectly nice dogs, but I won't ever get one, because I don't care for any "toy" dogs, and especially long-haired ones that...
Torfinn: Hmmmmm. . . . Never seriously thought about guinea pigs, although my "California girl" daughter has a ferret and I have a cousin who had a rabbit for...
Maria: Be glad, very glad, that nobody has ever domesticated raccoons. . . . Anne G ... BobtheCat who weighs about 16 lbs., a semi-feral huge, yellow, furry ...
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