Domestic? Forget it.

doi:10.1126/science.1147839

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Domestic? Forget it.

Donald Kennedy

Readers old enough to remember Don Marquis' syndicated New York Sun columns may recall that at night, a cockroach named Archy took over his typewriter to write short pieces about him and his friend, a cat named Mehitabel. Because he typed by diving on the keys, he had difficulty with upper case and punctuation, yielding a rather free-form text. In the following message forwarded to us, Mehitabel is apparently responding to recent findings on the genetic background and history of cat "domestication" (Science, 27 July 2007, p. 519).

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