EVOLUTION OF HORSES PPT.pptx

The evolution of the horse, a mammal of the family Equidae, occurred over a geologic time scale of 50 million years, transforming the small, dog-sized, forest-dwelling Eohippus into the modern horse.

1. EVOLUTION OF HORSES

2. INTRODUCTION The horse belongs to order Perissodactyla and family Equidae . The evolution history of horses is well known because:

3. Adaptation of modern horses:

4. The basic ancestral characters

5. OUTLINE OF PHYLOGENY OF HORSE

6. Progressive trends of evolution

7. A few more points

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