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So I'm creating a world in which humans have a close sister species very similar to the Japanese Nekomimi seen in anime and manga. Eventually, the humans turn on Nekomimis, perceiving themselves as superior. I'm not concerned with how Nekomimis actually came to be (handwavium can apply here), but I would like them to behave fairly similarly to humans, but different enough that humans would eventually want to cast them out as outsiders - despite our love of cats as proven by the Internet.
I'm also looking for any ways that Nekomimis would be better suited to some jobs than humans due to their biological differences.
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The term Neko in Japanese literally means simply cat without further elaboration and also has a slang sense to refer to the submissive partner in a homosexual relationship. So, you may want to think twice about using that term with the belief that it would be understood unambiguously to refer to a furry humanoid with cat-like aspects.
Unlike dogs which are omnivores like humans, cats are obligate carnivores and that fact has a lot to do with the reason that cats are less full domesticated than dogs and are instead more symbiotic with human historically than they are truly domesticated (at least until quite recently, cats cohabited with humans from about 9, 000 years ago and just started to be kept as true pets in the Middle Ages). Unlike dogs, cats could be trusted to guard grain stores because they would eat the pests such as mice and rats, but would not eat the grain itself.
Also, dietary differences are such a classic cultural distinction even between humans (kosher, vegan, paleo, no beef in India, etc.) that it would be a shame to waste the obvious opportunity. Dietary differences are used to great atmospheric and plot effect, for example, in the webcomic Orange Marmalade (which is currently being made into a live-action TV production).
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One animated series, RWBY, has a scene where a discriminated against furry recounts a historical battle in which humans tried to ambush them at night, but their superior night vision caused them to prevail. A tendency to be nocturnal has wide application. So does a natural hunting instinct and a good sense of smell. A sense of balance and a tail might be an edge in construction trades and work in tree removal and fruit harvesting.
Your Nekos might do well as sommeliers with an evening oriented lifestyle, a fine sense of smell and a tendency to want a pleasure-filled life fitting well with a career as a wine steward. And the cat house has also always been a term associated with a particular profession that tends towards the nocturnal.
A nocturnal lifestyle, a feline fetish for cleanliness and a subordinated position in society might also make a good fit for janitors/maids in the society.
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A reputation for being lazy and anti-social and not team players could fit into the subordinated role in society piece. It could also lead to lower levels of educational success because of trouble staying on task in conventional educational settings as opposed to independent study.
The tail thing is pretty easy. Humans already have a vestigial tail structure called the coccyx. No ape has a tail, but plenty of monkeys do so there are clearly latent genetics we can exploit in order for humans to grow a tail later in life. I'd suggest basing the tail on New World monkeys so it is prehensile, which is a much more useful adaptation (but not really cat-like). At any rate, extending the tip of the vertebral column and attaching some musculature to drive a tail is fairly trivial.
Rotating cat ears won't help you much with human skull shapes. The ears are on opposing sides of the head, rather than on the top, so you can't rotate them to get a stereoscopic auditory input. You CAN enlarge the pinna (outside of the ear) so your catpeople can hear better but only what is in front of them, they will have to rotate their head to pinpoint sounds. Trying to extend the human auditory canal up to the top of the head would be an extreme feat, and would distort the skull significantly. But you can boost human hearing into cat frequencies and increase the balancing functions of the inner ear, though on a bipedal organism I'm not sure it will help as much as with a quadruped.
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Boosting hair growth to cat-like levels is simple enough (although we really can't increase the number of hair follicles [hair club for men's claims to the contrary :)]) but you will run into overheating issues and nasty funk from sweat. Furred animals don't sweat like humans. So catpeople will either have to operate in colder areas, douse themselves in water to provide evaporative cooling (this is one of the reasons cats lick themselves), or develop a long tongue for panting. Cats like a higher body temp than humans, but trying to do that would require a significant alteration is a lot of biological functions in a human. Another possibility is less fur over key areas, like the armpits and groin, to allow for some areas for sweating. Humans still have hair in those areas to RETAIN heat, but if you have a permanent fur coat the opposite situation could arise.
Hard to imagine situations where cat adaptations would help in ways that technology wouldn't. But if these cat people have superb balance (helped a bit by the tail) they could be high elevation construction workers, cleaners, etc. Anything where walking along narrow surfaces is required. Improved frequency hearing could be helpful in detecting victims buried under rubble/avalanches, maybe hearing signs of mechanical stress in machinery (?), and possibly operating in low light environments since they may have a very weak form of echolocation.
There are other cat attributes like the reflective cornea for improved low light vision, increased visual response to motion, and predatory instincts that could certainly cause some level of discomfort from humans around these cat-people (especially if they are aggressive). They could also be territorial and a bit anti-social, especially a dominant male towards other males. No need for whiskers since the human shoulders are far too broad to ever allow the body to slip in behind the head (I've heard whiskers are to let animals know if they can fit their body through a hole) and at any rate, bipeds don't lead with their head anymore, they use their hands.
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This would cause the ears to be placed on the side of the head, an odd placement for cat-like ears, even if the ears are shaped the same as a cats. As most humans are still capable of moving their ears a little bit, you would simply need slightly more developed and perhaps better placed muscles in order to achieve the similar range of motion. (I wasn't able to move my ears when in elementary school until I met someone who could, and I actually spent a few months training myself until I could move my ears too. I still can to this day.)
Moving the ears to the top of the head, while otherwise retaining human characteristics, would require some alterations in brain shape, skull shape, and moving the connections between the ear and brain to the appropriate location. This may cause interesting side-effects.
This would start with the cat physiology, and modify it just enough to be a true humanoid, ala TMNT bio-energy points. One consideration would be the spine and pelvis. The spine in a cat has muscles running along the vertebrae, which allows for the incredible twisting motions cats usually display in mid-air, or when contortion-snuggling. If the pelvis was altered to be 'locking' like a humans, then they would have an easier time standing upright, however lose some flexibility. If it was not altered, then they retain the full flexibility, but would get tired of standing up for long periods of time. However, you would have the head and ears without any further alterations.
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Tails shouldn't be too much of a stretch, either way. Humans are occasionally born with actual tails, a well documented phenomenon. The catch would be that a human tail wouldn't be very mobile, as it would lack the extra muscles alone the spine (and tail) that a cat has. Perhaps a hybrid musculature, or the anthro-cat style would work best.
Cats are sprint-sleepers, a term which here means that they take short sleeps, interspersed by periods of wakefullness. During the day, the sleeping periods are longer, and the active periods are shorter. During the night, being nocturnal in general, they are mostly awake, with only short periods of rest or sleep. This would lend towards nocturnal jobs more than day jobs, unless said jobs are intermittent or sporadic in nature.
The reflective retina grants better low-light vision, though it can be used to spot them in the dark
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