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Cat brains are shrinking, and it’s all humans’ fault

Thousands of several years of human dependence has shrunk your cat’s mind, new study suggests.

In a research released Jan. 26 in the journal Royal Culture Open Science, scientists in comparison the cranial measurements (an indicator of brain dimensions) of fashionable house cats with that of two of their closest wild ancestors, African (Felis lybica) and European wildcats (Felis silvestris). The group found that cranium dimensions — and consequently mind dimension — in domesticated cats has shrunk drastically in excess of the past 10,000 decades or so when compared with their wild ancestors.

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