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They think that, because that is what they are taught in school and in the popular vernacular. It revolves essentially around The Ascent of Man, the legend that we always see depicted with the primates lined up, a small ape on all fours on the left, gradually giving way to the human on the right. They do the same thing in biology textbooks with the evolution of the horse, from small to grand, toes to hooves, as if God had intended it so, but couldn't--for an unbeknowst reason--just will that a horse be a horse from the beginning.