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Researchers measured the brain sizes of domesticated cats and wild cats that still exist in Europe and Africa. And even though their body sizes are similar, the wild cats have bigger BRAINS.
Basically, they think domesticated cats haven’t had to use their brains as much to do things like hunt and defend themselves. So over the past 10,000 years or so, we’ve gradually been dumbing them down by keeping them as pets.
