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babar90 t1_j8tu0bs wrote

Go on https://timetree.org/ type Felidae in "build a timetree, Specify a Group of Taxa " then choose species and see the (time-scaled, ie. age of common ancestors) tree you get

You'll find 5 other Felis species with MRCA from 1.5 to 6 million years. Adding the few Prionailurus species with MRCA 9 million years you'll get something roughly equivalent to the Homo-Pan lineage in term of evolutionary history.

The Felis species really look like cats and the Prionailurus species are a bit wilder but still cattish, need to go farther to find something more like a Lynx or a Panthera (MRCA 12 million years so similar to the Apes lineage);

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