Horse and man : their mutual dependence and duties . ELBOW, NEAR FORE-LEG (SEEN FROM RIGHT SIDE). The reader may have been struck with the factthat the number of toes on the foot of a mammalis exceedingly variable, but yet has certain , like man, have five toes or lingers [phalanges)on each extremity, while others, like the horse, haveonly one. Except by occasional monstrosity thereare never more than five phalanges, while the animals A FIVE-TOED HORSE. 13 sometimes have two, three, or four, as the case maybe. In some, as in the tapirs, there are four toes onthe front feet and only
Horse and man : their mutual dependence and duties . ELBOW, NEAR FORE-LEG (SEEN FROM RIGHT SIDE). The reader may have been struck with the factthat the number of toes on the foot of a mammalis exceedingly variable, but yet has certain , like man, have five toes or lingers [phalanges)on each extremity, while others, like the horse, haveonly one. Except by occasional monstrosity thereare never more than five phalanges, while the animals A FIVE-TOED HORSE. 13 sometimes have two, three, or four, as the case maybe. In some, as in the tapirs, there are four toes onthe front feet and only three on the hind limbs. A comparison of the hand of man with that of thehorse seems quite absurd, and yet it becomes simpleand intelligible when systematically carried out. The. ,-D ELBOW, NEAR FORE-LEG (SEEN FROM LEFT SIDE). reader must carefully keep in mind the fact that theso-called knee of the horse is really the wrist, andthat the rest of the hmb is really the modified earliest horse known to geologists had fivetoes or fingers. It was quite a little creature, scarcelylarger than an ordinary terrier dog. Then therecame an animal in which the characteristics of the 14 HOESE AND MAN. horse are much more strongly developed. It isappropriately named the Anchitherium— thecreature approaching the horse. In this animalthere were apparently three toes, all resting on theground, and the other two almost touching it. Nextcame the Hipparion— an animal almost a horse.
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