Looking at the Cat:An Eye on Evolution
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“The history of the domestic cat may stretch back even further, as 8,000-year-old bones of humans and cats were found buried together on the island of Cyprus.”
The history of the cat goes back much further than the Egyptians, as the reader will find out when reading “Looking at the Cat, An Eye on Evolution”. This book is an overview of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution as it relates to the cat. The student not only is exposed to the concepts of evolution but, at the same time, is shown examples of how evolution has progressed and the timeframe during which these changes have taken place. The book contains 44 pictures, photos and graphs along with 10 sidebars to further supplement the text.
Mary Jo Nickum
Mary Jo Nickum is a retired librarian, teacher, writer and editor. She is also a biologist, specializing in fish and other aquatic as well as terrestrial life. She enjoys writing about biological subjects for kids. Visit her website www.asktheanimallady.com for more about animals.
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Looking at the Cat:An Eye on Evolution - Mary Jo Nickum
Looking At The Cat
An Eye on Evolution
MARY JO NICKUM
Aquitaine Ltd
Phoenix, Arizona
It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin
Looking At The Cat
An Eye on Evolution
MARY JO NICKUM
Aquitaine Ltd
Phoenix, Arizona
Cover design by JD Smith Design
Copyright © 2015 Mary Jo Nickum
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016944892
ISBN-10: 0-692-67144-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-67144-3
www.aquitaineltd.com
Advanced Praise for
LOOKING AT THE CAT; AN EYE ON EVOLUTION…
…you cover the subject very well…the book should be useful to students. We certainly need more books like this.
—Harley Shaw, Director The Cougar Network
Author of Soul among Lions, the Cougar as Peaceful Adversary
Quite a story, well researched, well written and very courageous.
—Dr. Valerius Geist, wildlife researcher and
Professor Emeritus The University of Calgary, Alberta.
I believe it would be great to have the information
out there for students to read. Your LOOKING AT THE CAT; AN EYE ON EVOLUTION helps to fill that niche.
—Dr. Gene Ulrich National Teacher of the Year Finalist
Dedication
This book is dedicated to young people everywhere who
Don’t like to or find it difficult to read and
Who, therefore, live on the fringes of a happy, healthy life.
Learn to enjoy reading and the world can be yours.
Believe in yourselves.
Illustration List
Figure 1a Prehistoric Forest
Figure 1b Prehistoric Forest
Figure 2 The Dirk-Tooth Cat Skull
Figure 3 The Simitar-Tooth Cat
Figure 4 Temperature Change
Figure 5 Protoceratids
Figure 6 Prehistoric Wild Horses
7a. First wave of Feline Migration
7b. Second wave of Feline Migration
Figure 8 Land Cracking From Earthquake
Figure 9 Continental Drift Map
Figure 10 Charles Darwin
Figure 11 Heritable Charges Over Time
Figure 12 Creodon
Figure 13 Nimravidae
Figure 14 Dinictis
Figure 15 Parallel Evolution
Figure 16 Miacidae
Figure 17 Viverravidae
Figure 18 Proailurus Lemanensis (first cat)
Figure 19 Pseudaelurus lorteti
Figure 20 Sabre-Tooth Cat
Figure 21 Modern cat (Felis silvestris)
Figure 22 Sabre-Tooth Cat Skull
Figure 23 Dinaelurus crassus
Figure 24 Simitar Cat Fossil
Figure 25 Rancho La Brea
Figure 26a Oil bubble in Tar Pit in downtown Los Angeles
Figure 26b Map of Los Angeles showing tar pit location
Figure 27 Pool of Water Covering Tar Pit
Figure 28 Friesenhahn Cave
Figure 29 American Scimitar Cat Skull
Figure 30 Smilodon Skeleton
Figure 31 Panthera leo atrox (American Lion)
Figure 32 A cave to where scimitar cats drug their prey to eat
Figure 33 Richmond Hill Fossil Site
Figure 34 Chadron Formation and extends from Nebraska to Saskatchewan, Canada
Figure 35 Sediment Layers Record Times
Figure 36 Forest to grassland from the late Oligocene through the Miocene (from