Mice are a diverse group that make up several different genre, including the field mouse or the standard mouse. And each mouse species is accustomed to its own habitat, like the desert pygmy mouse or the Southern African mouse or the house mouse of Eastern Europe. But the mouse that most people are familiar with is the house mouse. The house mouse probably evolved in Central and Southeast Asia. That according to Megan Pfeiffer. Rixley, an evolutionary biologist at Drexel University in Philadelphia who studies the species