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Cats change the society

August 4th, 2006, under , ,

Well, not directly, but the title sounded outrageous enough to gather attention. What actually seems to be happening is that cat parasites may play a part in affecting certain cultural traits in human populations. They make us more neurotic, less tolerant to uncertainty, and more stuck to masculine sex roles.

Or that, in any case, is what scientists based at the University of California, Santa Barbara have found.

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