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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 01:30:16 JST Flipboard Science Desk

Big cats — like lions, tigers and pumas — are the attention-grabbing celebrities of the feline world. But of the 41 species of wild felines, the vast majority are about the size of a housecat. And the few evolutionary changes the domestic cat has made have been the right ones to wangle their way into people’s hearts and homes. How did they do it?
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1. Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here's how
  
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  Natural selection changed just 13 genes to separate your Felix and Fluffy from their African wildcat ancestor.

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