However humans were developing an agrarian society based on crops that would have attracted rodents, it is also possible that the kittens wre tamed and used to control pests. This would also have been in the cat's interests-keeping the scavenger population under control provided a regular concentration of well-fed prey.
In 1865, Francis Galton, a British scientist who specialized in the study of heredity and intelligence, defined the essential qualities of the early domestic animal. it would need to be useful easy to tend, able to breed freely and above all ,be comfort loving and have a liking for humans. there is also hypothesis that the process of domestication from the wild,savage feline may have been accelerated by genetic mutation. Genes, the building blocks for a living creature,include patterns for behavior as well as the size and general conformation of the adult. A fault in the genes that control behavior patterns could, at some time, have created cat that was temperamentally unwilling to leave a juvenile dependency state.This coupled with a ready supply of food from human farmers,created an environment in which the mutual advantages of domestication were explored.The kitten cat gained warmth comfort and secure environment in which to breed,and it's offspring were valued as an ongoing supply of rodent exterminators. this made the spread of the genetic fault creating socially valuable domesticated cat inevitable.
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