From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   John W Kennedy wrote:   
   > Felis sylvestris lybica, the   
   > African wildcat (with a range extending into the near east and southern   
   > Europe) is the immediate ancestor of the domestic cat.   
      
   That is it's range now.  What's relevant is the range several thousand   
   years ago.  The range of the kittycat is very much different now than   
   it was 2000 years ago, and that of F. Sylvestris is vanishing.   
      
   Herodotus said that Libya was a forest 2500 years ago.  He's less   
   spotted now than he was then.  (I think it was Herodotus, or maybe   
   Diodorus Siculus.)  That's where F. Lybica emerged from to inhabit the   
   granaries and temples.   
      
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