A 19th-Century perspective on horse evolution
A 19th-Century perspective on horse evolution
Drawings at left by , a prominent American paleontologist at Yale's Peabody
Museum in the late1800's. The series presents equid evolution as a
linear
progression from Eohippus to modern
Equus, and is intended
to reinforce the concept of evolution as progressive and goal-oriented.
The series in fact traces only one of many lineages, most of which have
died out. The drawing at right is by , an early British proponent of Darwin's Theory of
Evolution,
who on visiting Marsh declared that "Eohippus must have an Eohomo".
[Of course, early horses and early humans missed each by 50 Million
Years].
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2005 by Steven M. Carr