Comments on: Cats might be larger now than in the past https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/cats-might-be-larger-now-than-in-the-past/ Sat, 15 Dec 2018 14:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/cats-might-be-larger-now-than-in-the-past/#comment-1062336 Sat, 15 Dec 2018 14:31:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55224#comment-1062336 Looks sorta like a picture of a Maine Coon at the site, and they are large, no matter what!

I would flip the cause-n-effect around, [assuming more abundant food as a causally related factor] and rather say, “cats larger than their average-peers had greater access to more-food.” Otherwise you run the risk of explanatory-fictions. Selection-pressures, act on Populations, and not individuals.

]]> By: mike shupp https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/cats-might-be-larger-now-than-in-the-past/#comment-1062301 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 07:59:09 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55224#comment-1062301 Modern day mice are fatter! or a lot more numerous.

More likely, it’s that modern cats, at least most house cats, are fed regularly, even as kittens. They’re more apt to reach maturity, more apt to reach their full potential size. Transport those Viking cats through time to the present day and rear them now, and they too would … grow up like Vikings!

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/cats-might-be-larger-now-than-in-the-past/#comment-1062295 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:11:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55224#comment-1062295 Better food and more of it. Modern Danes average being a lot bigger than their Viking ancestors too – probably by more than 16%.

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