EVOLUTION
EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fossils spanning a period of more than 50 million years show how the horse evolved. The oldest horse fossils show what the earliest horses were like. They were only 0.4 m tall, or about the size of a fox, and they had four long toes.
Detailed explanation-3: -So, the correct answer is ‘All modern species have arisen from previous forms, and continue to evolve’
Detailed explanation-4: -Our resulting data indicate that more than half (55%) of natural history museums today still depict horse evolution as orthogenetic, despite the fact that paleontologists have known for a century that the actual evolutionary pattern of the Family Equidae is branching.