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Welcome to Scientific Americans Science Talk posted on December 10, 2015.

I'm Steve Murski. On this episode, Europeans always thought that horses

evolved in Europe and Asia and had to be brought to North America in order to live. But it did

seem strange to Darwin when he would see how well the horses were doing in the Western Hemisphere.

Hmm, they act like they belong here.

What could that be about, Darwin wondered.

That's Wendy Williams.

She's a veteran science journalist and equestrian.

And she's combined her passions to bring us the new book, The Horse,

the epic history of our noble companion,

published by Scientific American and Farah Strauss and Giroux.

She was in New York City recently, and we talked about the book at the Scientific American

Offices.

You say right up front in your prologue, the horse, the name of the book, is a scientific

travelogue, a biography of the horse, and a worldwide investigation into the bond that unites horses and humans.

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