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Hi Science-folks. I've always wondered -- did domesticated cats develop to enjoy being petted by people because people liked petting them, or did people develop to enjoy petting cats because cats like being petted? It's a causal-direction question, yadig?

by /u/rimcrimp in /r/askscience

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