Word: eohippus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mankind belongs to the order of Primates. There is no more reason for our being ashamed of our Northarctus ancestors (early Primates) than for the horse to be ashamed of Eohippus (early ancestral horse). In science we have no fear or shame, we merely survey facts open-mindedly. He shows slide of Northarctus, a fur covered monstrosity...
...anthropologists had as clear a picture of human evolution as they have of horse evolution (a neat series ascending from four-toed little eohippus), their lives would be less exciting but laymen would understand them better. Professor Dubois first ascribed Pithecanthroptis to the Pleistocene or Glacial Age, then shifted him to the preceding period, the Pliocene. Although extremely apelike, he was admitted to the human family by the skin of his primitive teeth, but Professor Dubois has changed his mind again, now pigeonholes the ancient creature as an ape related to the gibbons. Professor Dubois considers that all the original...
...horse originated in North America. It had four toes on its fore feet, three toes on its hind feet. Moderns speak of it as Eohippus. It stood about 16 in. high, lived some 25 million years ago. In 24,900,000 years Eohippus grew up to the size of the modern horse, went wandering across America into Asia, across Asia, down into Africa. There the Libyans tamed him. From this horse is descended the race of pure-blooded Arab horses, famed for fleetness, which Arabian breeders still guard jealously. Some of his cousins went to France, were also tamed. These...
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