Blog
Save
Email
Print
ShareThe evolution in the structure of their teeth, odd-toed limbs, obvious mobility of the upper lip, and other aspects, joins the horse to the evolutionary line of odd-toed, hoofed mammals: the Perissodactyls.
The tapirs and rhinoceroses remained adapted to their original style of life, conserving forms suitable for life in tropical forests, but the evolutionary line of the horse mainly adapted to life on dryer land in the much-harsher climatic conditions of the steppes.
For more information about the topic Evolution of the horse, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
Parallel evolution — Parallel evolution is the independent evolution of similar traits, starting from a similar ancestral condition. Frequently this is the situation in ... > read more
Evolution of cetaceans — The cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are descendants of land-living mammals, and remnants of their terrestrial origins can be found in the ... > read more
Pterosaur — Pterosaurs, "winged lizards," often referred to as "pterodactyls" were flying reptiles of the clade Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic ... > read more
The evolution of human intelligence — The nature and origins of hominid intelligence is a much-studied and much-debated topic, of natural interest to humans as the most successful and ... > read more
Trace fossil — Trace fossils are those details preserved in rocks that are indirect evidence of life. While we are most familiar with relatively spectacular fossil ... > read more
Homo heidelbergensis — Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is an extinct, potentially distinct species of the genus Homo and may be the direct ancestor of Homo ... > read more
Fossil — Fossils are the mineralized or otherwise preserved remains or traces (such as footprints) of animals, plants, and other organisms. The totality of ... > read more
Timeline of human evolution — The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the development of humans species and the evolution of human's ancestors. It begins with ... > read more
Genetic drift — Genetic drift is the term used in population genetics to refer to the statistical drift over time of gene frequencies in a population due to random ... > read more
Homo habilis — Homo habilis ("handy man", "skillful person") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8 million years ago at ... > read moreNote: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Evolution of the horse at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
Recommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:
Other bookmarking and sharing tools:
more 