Historical record · From deep ancestry to companion

Domestic Cat

Follow the evidence from early felids to the house cat—including what new ancient DNA has changed.

Primary topic: Nature & the Universe

Scope of this guide

A curated selection of milestones, not a complete history or a claim that every step is a direct ancestor of the next. Earlier reading-path context is separate from the chapters selected for this subject.

Actual source-review status

0 completed · 0 partial · 15 pending chapter reviews in this subject.

The factual audit is unfinished. These counts come from recorded chapter reviews, not legacy “reviewed” wording, confidence labels or image checks. A completed source review retains scientific and historical uncertainty.

Key chapters

More than 100,000 years ago
African wildcats diversify →
Felis lybica populations range across Africa and Southwest Asia.
Full chapter source review pending. Confidence labels are editorial assessments.
c. 8,500–7,500 BCE
People carry cats to Cyprus →
Island finds prove that humans intentionally transported cats across water.
Full chapter source review pending. Confidence labels are editorial assessments.
Present day
A global companion keeps its wild edge →
House cats live nearly everywhere people do, yet retain much of the behavior of solitary hunters.
Full chapter source review pending. Confidence labels are editorial assessments.

Connected roads

These are authored connections in the existing catalogue, not an automatically inferred family tree.

Earlier reading context: Big Bang to Us · Early mammals live alongside dinosaurs. A reading-path prefix is not itself an ancestry claim.

No additional outgoing subject connections are authored for this road yet.

All chapters & review records

The cat family emergespending
Living cat lineages radiatepending
The domestic-cat lineage takes shapepending
Small cats of genus Felis appearpending
African wildcats diversifypending
People carry cats to Cypruspending
Settlements create a new nichepending
Cats are managed in Upper Egyptpending
China follows a different cat pathpending
A domestic lineage expands from North Africapending
Cats cross the Mediterraneanpending
House cats reach China by the Silk Roadpending
People begin selecting appearancepending
The modern cat fancy beginspending
A global companion keeps its wild edgepending

Sources

Sources cited by the existing chapters. Listing a source does not mean every claim has been verified.