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Macintosh Picture Format  |  1996-09-10  |  171KB  |  640x310  |  8-bit (170 colors)

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OCR: ing, is the grouping of organisms by shared specialized characteristics; each time a new evo- lutionary feature appears new branch grows uo the evolutionary tree comprising organisms that have both the old traits and the new one Thus some later horses such as Calipmus num- ber 46 are actually smaller than earlier ones, and other later horses, such as Neohippar iom number 40 still retain three toes. So we have here both a classic demonstration of evolution and paradigm of scientific metl hod at the Museum Much he history horses was passed ir North America the conti- nent of their origin but at certain times they migrated tc Asia Europe Africa and South America Neohipparion method

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