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HITHERTO it has been generally assumed that wild horses have been long extinct, that all domestic horses are the descendants of a single wild species, and that, except in size, ponies in no essential points differ from horses.
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By Dr. J. Cossar Ewart, F.R.S. Abridged from Trans. Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, vol. xvi., 1904.
An account of the prehistoric horses of Europe, by Dr. Robert Munro, will be found in the Archaeological Journal, vol. lix. No. 234.
"Points of the Horse," pp. 422–425.
It was formerly stated that the wild horse was simply a hybrid between a Mongolian pony and a kiang. I recently showed that a hybrid of this kind is quite different from the wild horse. See Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxiv. part v., 1902–1903, and NATURE, vol. lxviii. p. 271.
See Marshall and Annandale, Proc. Cam. Phil. Soc., vol. xii. part iv.
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The Multiple Origin of Horses and Ponies 1 . Nature 69, 590–596 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069590a0
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