The document discusses the history and domestication of animals. It provides timelines for the emergence of life on Earth, with the first animals appearing around 2.5 billion years ago. Around 2.2 billion years ago, oxygen in the atmosphere allowed organisms to move from water to land. Wolves were the first animal domesticated, around 12,000 years ago, as they began hanging around villages for food. Cats were domesticated around 3,500 years ago, with early pictures found in Egyptian tombs.