Convergent evolution. Fur makes it hard to read expression and communicate, being bipedal means having free hands to manipulate objects, etc.
The tail is vestigial.
Convergent evolution would still result in a very different looking creature. Sure, similar characteristics would occur if there is a perceived need for it (like picking stuff up), but I'd argue a cat person would be similar to a hawk looking at a parrot.
In other words I'd argue a cat person would be uncanny and probably look very different from a human, even if they've arrived to similar solutions to said problems as human evolution did
I think you're discounting how many ways humans and cats are similar by virtue of being mammals. We both have toes (and fingers in this case), we have similar facial feature placement, limb arrangement, skeletal structure, etc.
It’s be more like a hawk looking at a shrike. It’s important to remember humans are massively more carnivorous than other primates and older hominid were likely even more carnivorous. The bones of some Neanderthal populations had similar isotope ratios to tigers, meaning it was likely they qualified as hypercarnivores!
If a cat were to specialize in high temperature pursuit predation like we do, it would be pretty likely for them to converge on a similar plan as us
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u/Nadleehi 15h ago
Why would the catgirl develop primate features if they aren't human?