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hen Darwin was proposing his theory, there

were no intermediate forms to support it, but he
hoped that some would be discovered in the future.
To remedy this vital deficiency, paleontologists who believed
in Darwinism put together a set of horse fossils found in North
America to form a sequence. Despite the fact that there ap-
peared to be no intermediate forms in the fossil record, the
Darwinists thought that they had come up with a great success.
One of the most important pieces of this sequence had al-
ready been discovered before Darwinism. In 1841, the English

paleontologist Sir Richard Owen found a fossil belonging to a
small mammal and, inspired by its similarity to the hyrax, a

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