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i'm sorry, which evolutionary geneticists? the 1 sentence in a nat geo article about the genomes being similar, or...

https://www.science.org/content/article/genes-turned-wildcat...

http://www.jabg.org/view/JABG_202303_02.pdf

from the looks of it, you found an inkling of confirmation and rolled with it. you think you got a science backing for your ideas, but nah, wrong. remind yourself when you read all the articles claiming "near identical DNA!" that human DNA is ~1.6% different from gorilla DNA. geneticists are seeing larger differences between domestic and wild cat species.