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Steve Whittet wrote:

> Just to give an analogy, after man arrived in the New World and
> hunted big game like bears, bison and mamoths to the point of
> extinction horses evolved some twenty two new *species* to fill
> the niche. Man has been in New Guinea about 70 times as long
> as it took the new World horses to evolve.

Now this is the merest rubbish.  Within historic times there have
been only two species of horses (plus two ass and three zebra
species):  plain old *Equus caballus* and Przewalski's wild horse.
Horses evolved from *Hyracotherium* (aka *Eohippus*) to
*E. caballus* in the New World, went extinct there around Paleo-Indian
times, but had spread to the Old World (and were
reintroduced by the Spanish much later).

Mr. Whittet is plainly smoking some unusual juice here.

-- 
John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban

