The Age of Cats review: How our furry friends evolved, and what’s next

The Age of Cats
Jonathan B. Losos (Harper Collins UK, out 11 Might)

ON THE face of it, as Jonathan B. Losos admits early in his new e-book, it isn’t apparent why he would write about cats.

Losos, a biologist at Washington College in St Louis, Missouri, has spent most of his profession finding out the evolution of lizards. His analysis has explored the mechanisms driving this and, by extension, how evolution works usually.

This culminated in his 2017 …