From: willreich_77@yahoo.com   
      
   On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 3:29:41 PM UTC-4, William Vetter wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Wrong   
      
   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070628-cat-ancestor.html   
      
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