Anjali Goswami thinks cats are perfect—not in the same way as the average cat person, out of admiration for their beauty, athleticism and independence of spirit, but from a scientific standpoint.

When you think about Europe, images of large wildcats are not what first comes to mind. Thousands of years ago, however, the story was different. Leopards, lions, and even cheetahs were once thought ...

ON THE face of it, as Jonathan B. Losos admits early in his new book, it isn’t obvious why he would write about cats. Losos, a biologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, has spent most ...