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   ocr: horse, Hyracotherzum, to Equus, the horse we know today- a widely held view of evolution until recently. Here the horse is seen to evolve in a neat, predictable line, gradually getting larger; with fewer toes and longer teeth. However, the fossil horses show great diversity of form that implies that their evolution is more accurately depicted as a bush than the trunk of a tree. The skeletons toward the back represent, together with those at the front, the diversity of horses whose evolutionary history is best determined by cladistics, an analytical method which views evolution as a more comple ...