The history of cats can be traced back to ancient Egypt, where humans and felines coexisted. In Ancient Egypt were worshiped, pampered, and statues of them with pharaohs can still be seen at the Cairo Museum.
The cats were interbred with the African wildcat, a subspecies of Silvestris lybica. Today, cats are the most common household pets.
Cats emerged during the early Pliocene period, which lasted 5.3 to 3.6 million years. Since then, cats have continued to evolve with minimal change, even exhibiting the appearance of a distinctive blotched pattern on their coat. Today, they are known as lap cats.
In recent years, scientists have conducted genetic studies to reconstruct the evolution of domestic cats. These studies have revealed that domestic cats have the same DNA as wild cats. The ancient feline primarily derives from a single ancestor, Felis silvestris lybica. The domestic cat is a diploid organism with about twenty thousand genes. It evolved from the same ancestor as the wild feline, with minor changes over the centuries.