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of horse ev o lu tion is to tal ly im ag i - sud den ly and with the same struc -
nary. Like oth er spe cies, hors es al so tures they have now. Betty Faber of
come in to ex is tence with out leav ing the American Museum of Natural
any ev o lu tion a ry an ces tor in the fos - History says that the cock roach es of
sil record. 350 mil lion years ago are ex act ly the
same as those of to day. 106
Spiders, ticks and cen ti pe des are
ORIGIN OF THE INSECTS not re al ly in sects, al though they are
With re gard to the or i gin of birds, gen er al ly re ferred to as such. At the
ev o lu tion ist bi ol o gists claim that cer - 1983 an nu al meet ing of the
tain rep tiles that used their front legs American Association for the
de vel oped wings to catch in sects Advancement of Science, ex ceed ing -
and evolved in to birds. According to ly im por tant fos sil find ings re gard -
this spec u la tive the sis, known as the ing these or gan isms were pre sent ed.
cur so ri al the o ry, the fore arms of the The 380-mil lion-year-old spi der, tick
rep tiles in ques tion grad u al ly elon - and cen ti pede fos sils were iden ti cal
gat ed in to wings as they at tempt ed
to catch flies. (See The Cursorial
Theory.) The most im por tant ques -
tion re gard ing this the o ry, which is
based on no sci en tif ic find ings at all,
is how in sects, which were al ready
able to fly, de vel oped their wings.
Insects, flies in clud ed, rep re sent yet
an oth er di lem ma for ev o lu tion ists.
In the clas si fi ca tion of liv ing
things, in sects rep re sent a sub-phy -
lum, Insecta, with in the ar thro pod
phy lum (or gan isms with joint ed
legs). The old est fos sil in sects be long
to the Devonian Period. In the sub -
se quent pe ri od, the Pennsylvanian,
a large num ber of dif fer ent in sect
A 35-mil lion-year-old fly pre served in am ber (fos sil -
spe cies emerge sud den ly. Fossilized ized tree res in). This fos sil, dis cov ered near the Baltic
cock roach es, for in stance, ap pear Sea, is iden ti cal to spec i mens liv ing to day.

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