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   ocr: - 47 EvolutionofHorses: Sq REMAINS OF HORSES ARE AMONG THE BEST-STUDIED AND MOST FREQUENTLY FOUND FOSSILS IN NORTH America. The American Museum of Natural History owns the largest collection, numbering over seventy-five thousand skeletons and fragments. Since the early years of this century, their exhibition has represented a classic demonstration of evolution. Indeed, by looking carefully at this complex and multifaceted collection, we learn not only about the evolution of the horse, but also more generally about the development of scientitic views of evolution. The fossil horses aligned from ...