Re: [tied] Horses

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From: João Simões Lopes Filho

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 7:22 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Horses

What nearly all "horse books" and encyclopaedias repeat is: "The domestic horse descends from the tarpan and from Przewalski's wild horse" or "The horse was domesticated in the steppes of Central Asia and Eastern Europe". Well, P-horses and Central Asia (or even the part of Eastern Europe between the Volga and the Urals) are ruled out by genetic evidence.

 

Piotr

 

P.S. Nikolaj Mikhailovich Przewalski (or Przhevalskij in transliterated Russian) was a Russian officer, explorere and naturalist. His father's family was Polish, however, and so was his name. As it is mispronounced in a variety of ways, let it be known on Cybalist that the Polish pronunciation is [pSe'valski] (S = "sh", or rather the sort of sound that may result from the devoicing of English "r"). Something like "pre-VAL-skee" would be good enough. "pur-zhe-VAL-skee" is absurd and "she-VAL-skee", while marginally better, sounds like a French folk-etymology (Cheval-ski).

 

 

 

Joao:

These new view terminate the traditional hypothesis seen in Horse books that Arabian Horse was a descendant of Przewalskii Horse.