Cats
My Cat is a Darwinist
As you can see, my cat Merry Jayne wants you to know that she believes in Evolution. I wonder how far back she and I would have to go to find a common ancestor. Should be easy enough to find out what current theory has to say about this. The book she's lying on is a first edition copy of Man's Evolution: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology by C.L. Brace and M.F. Ashley Montagu, a 1965 textbook I picked up a few weeks ago at a thrift store for a buck or two. Who could have imagined that 44 years later we'd find that half of the US still does not believe in evolution.
BTW I this pic isn't staged, she was actually sleeping on the books before I woke her trying to take the picture. She's been known to lay on most anything, her favorite is a hammer. Go figure.
UPDATE: According to this article from 2005 at National Geographic, we may have to go back 70 million years or so to find a common ancestor between cats and humans:
Placental mammals give birth to live young, and they descended from a common ancestor scientists simply call the "boreoeutherian ancestor." The creature scurried about the woodlands of Asia more than 70 million years ago.
We don't yet know what this common ancestor actually was, much of the work done is through tracing commonalities in the DNA of living mammals.
