If there’s one inescapable cat to out-purr ... had his first big meme moment in the summer of 2018. Smudge sat at the dinner table with his family, like the real human he might just be on ...

In the summer of 2000 scientists celebrated the near complete mapping of the human ... theory of memes, though flawed, remains one of the leading ways of thinking about cultural evolution.

features that make a breed appear like a human infant (which needs our constant attention) up the cuteness factor. The merging of dog and cat features is an example of convergent evolution ...

My view, and that of many other die-hard cat ... memes and videos of that most charismatic and beguiling of all domestic animals. Jerry A. Coyne, emeritus professor of ecology and evolution ...

think about how different a Tyrannosaurus rex and a saber-toothed cat are from each other. Human evolution only took place over the course of 5 to 8 million years, a much shorter span compared to ...

ceremony at Washington National Cathedral in October 2006. When it comes to pursuing prey, dogs do it much more efficiently than cats. So do humans, for that matter. The fact that cats are ...

Memes anesthetize that pain, allowing us a vessel for revisiting the past in an innocuous way. A final ingredient to Bongo Cat’s appeal is its appeal to the human ego. Tucker also points out ...

Cat Bohannon’s book ... How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.” A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era ...

Humans likely breed for these features because they most closely resemble those of human infants and trigger parental instincts. Cats or dogs? Dogs or cats? Whether you’re a feline fanatic or ...