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eral truth in textbook after textbook. Now, I think that is lamentable, par-
ticularly when the people who propose those kinds of stories may them-
selves be aware of the speculative nature of some of that stuff. 268
Prof. N. Heribert-Nilsson, a famous evolutionist botanist at the
University of Lund in Sweden:
The construction of the horse is
therefore a very artificial one, since
it is put together from non-equiva-
lent parts, and cannot therefore be a
continuous transformation series. 269
Stephen Jay Gould:
Prothero and Shubin conclude:
"This is contrary to the widely-held
myth about horse species as gradu-
alistically varying parts of a contin-
uum, with no real distinctions be-
Step hen Jay Gould
tween species. Throughout the his-
tory of horses, the species are well-
marked and static over millions of years. At high resolution, the gradual-
istic picture of horse evolution becomes a complex bush of overlapping,
closely related species. 270
Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy:
Nowhere have any intermediate
forms demonstrating a transition
from a five-toed ancestor to
Hyracotherium (Eohippus) with four
toes on its front feet and three on the
back. 271

Prof. Ali Demirsoy