Description: The family Equidae have an extensive fossil record spanning the past 57 million years, and the evolution of the horse has frequently been used as a classic example of long term evolution. In recent years, however, many new and important discoveries of fossil horses have been made, and these, in conjunction with such new methods as cladistics and techniques such as precise geochronology, have allowed us to obtain a much greater understanding of the evolution and biology of this important group.\ P\ This book synthesizes the large body of data and research relevant to an understanding of fossil horses from several disciplines including paleontology, geology and biology. Using horses as the central theme, the author weaves together in the text topics such as modern geochronology, paleobiogeography, climate change, evolution and extinction, functional morphology and population biology during the Cenozoic period. This is the first major treatise on fossil horses since Simpson's work of 1951.

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