General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . EVOLUTION OF THE HORSE shown by skull and foot bones. (See text) [49]. SKELETONS OK HORSE AM) MAX COMKARI I) [5o3 on, whereas the short upper and lower jawsnd low-crowned cheek teeth of man arempted for a mixed diet. Moreover, theorses long jaws enable him to reach hisaod, which is normally on or near theround, while the short jaws of man havele food brought up to them by the bony cranium or braincase of theorse is much smaller in proportion to theeight of the body than is the braincase oflan, which is
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . EVOLUTION OF THE HORSE shown by skull and foot bones. (See text) [49]. SKELETONS OK HORSE AM) MAX COMKARI I) [5o3 on, whereas the short upper and lower jawsnd low-crowned cheek teeth of man arempted for a mixed diet. Moreover, theorses long jaws enable him to reach hisaod, which is normally on or near theround, while the short jaws of man havele food brought up to them by the bony cranium or braincase of theorse is much smaller in proportion to theeight of the body than is the braincase oflan, which is greatly enlarged by the enor-ious growth of the human brain. The bonyands of the remote ancestors of the horseave become greatly modified during longges of specialization for swift running. Thusach hand of the modern horse has butne finder, is very long and slender, and ter-?nates in a thick horny hoof corresponding3 the nail on the middle finger of the handf man. Likewise the bone beneath the hooforresponds to the last bone of the middlenger of the human hand. The visitor maynjoy making similar comparisons for him-?f: for example, where is t
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