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  2. Domestication of the cat - Wikipedia

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    The trees also helped show that F. s. lybica gave rise to the domesticated cats of today. F. s. silvestris showed a very early branching away from the other groups, but still shares a very early common ancestor with the rest of the clades. [5] Domesticated cats originated [11] from near-eastern and Egyptian populations of F. s. lybica. The ...

  3. Evidence of common descent - Wikipedia

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    The fact that small cats have an ERV where the larger cats do not suggests that the gene was inserted into the ancestor of the small cats after the larger cats had diverged. [35] Another example of this is with humans and chimps. Humans contain numerous ERVs that comprise a considerable percentage of the genome.

  4. Cat gap - Wikipedia

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    The cause of the "cat gap" is disputed, but it may have been caused by changes in the climate (global cooling), changes in the habitat and environmental ecosystem, the increasingly hypercarnivorous trend of the cats (especially the nimravids), volcanic activity, evolutionary changes in dental morphology of the Canidae species present in North ...

  5. Felidae - Wikipedia

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    Cat species vary greatly in body and skull sizes, and weights: The largest cat species is the tiger (Panthera tigris), with a head-to-body length of up to 390 cm (150 in), a weight range of at least 65 to 325 kg (143 to 717 lb), and a skull length ranging from 316 to 413 mm (12.4 to 16.3 in).

  6. Homology (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Belon systematically compared the skeletons of birds and humans in his Book of Birds (1555) [1]. Homology was noticed by Aristotle (c. 350 BC), [1] and was explicitly analysed by Pierre Belon in his 1555 Book of Birds, where he systematically compared the skeletons of birds and humans.

  7. Homotherini - Wikipedia

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    Homotherini (Machairodontini) is a tribe (or subtribe) [1] of saber-toothed cats of the family Felidae (true cats). The tribe is commonly known as scimitar-toothed cats.These saber-toothed cats were endemic to North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America [2] from the Miocene to Pleistocene living from c. 23 Ma until c. 12,000 years ago. [3]

  8. These Cats Lived the Longest Lives Ever - AOL

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    A cat named Creme Puff is considered to be the oldest cat ever with a lifespan of 38 years and 3 days. We’ve compiled a list of the 10 oldest cats by accepting the owner’s word as reported in ...

  9. Last universal common ancestor - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] Charles Darwin more famously proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in his book On the Origin of Species in 1859: "Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first ...