What is the difference between a pet cat and a wildcat?
Here's how cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago.
Jonathan Losos
Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan Losos is an evolutionary biologist known for his research on how lizards rapidly evolve in response to changing environments. Recently, he has been asking similar questions about domestic cats, investigating where they came from, why they do what they do, and what the future may hold, topics that are explored in "The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa." Losos is the William H. Danforth distinguished university professor at Washington University and director of the Living Earth Collaborative, a partnership between Wash U., the Saint Louis Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Garden. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and is the recipient of many awards.
