[Presbyterian Reporter]

I was thinking the other day how cats come in all sizes from a male lion that weighs more than 400 pounds while a house cat is 10 pounds.

On the other hand humans do not have such a size disparity. A dwarf might be 3 feet tall while the tallest humans are about 7 feet tall.

[wildcard_redneck]

On the other hand humans do not have such a size disparity. A dwarf might be 3 feet tall while the tallest humans are about 7 feet tall.

Wait until the evil establishment concludes that super tiny hands are better at manufacturing electronics.......

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I was thinking the other day how cats come in all sizes from a male lion that weighs more than 400 pounds while a house cat is 10 pounds.

On the other hand humans do not have such a size disparity. A dwarf might be 3 feet tall while the tallest humans are about 7 feet tall.

The appropriate comparison would be humans, gorillas, orangutans, etc. Though I don't believe any of the great apes are as closely related to humans as, for example, tigers and lions are to each other.

[piasa]

Compare a spider monkey to Michael Moore...

[ZULU]

Check out extinct cave lions and the extinct South American Saber tooth. Biggest yet

[Axenolith]

The cougars, cheetas and house cats are in a different subfamily than the lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars. Felinae vs Pantherinae. So there’s a larger speciation/type gap over their size differences.

At one time there may have been as many as 4-6 different tool using hominid species on the planet at once, but given our general nature in our current technological state, that was probably pretty brief in any situation where they abutted each other on contiguous territory.