In the year 1859, Charles Darwin published his universally infamous, paradigm-shattering and world changing scientific thesis, On The Origin of Species. Within this text he set forth many new ideas that had never been speculated before. Among these were theories like survival of the fittest, natural selection, and evolution. A lesser known theme of this work, though, is the one we will be discussing now - the theory of equestrian mythofictional societal propogation. The horse, or Equus Ferus Caballus, is a subspecies of Equees Ferus, which is a species of the Equus genus. Most people accept the existence of horses at face value, simply because that's what others before them did. Just like how the world believed that the Earth was flat, that the sun orbited the Earth, and showering made you more likely to get sick, people continually pushed the idea that horses were real with no basis or evidence. They did so on example, because it's what they learned from others. But where did this come from? Following anthropological evidence back as far as 3,200BC to ancient Egypt, there have been millenia upon millenia of philosophers, authors, poets, musicians, politicians, mathematicians, and priests publishing and presenting to public attention great works describing the horse and its existence, using their status as unquestionable guides to influence the ignorant masses. Evidence points back to approximately 32-34mya to a genus of Equidea known as mesohippus, which strongly resembles the modern conception of a horse, but was entirely different by a whole degree of classification. Cave drawings by an unidentifiable member of the species kenyanthropus platyops, an ancestor of man, illustrate the first known case of mesohippus being mistaken for equus ferus caballus. From that drawing on, myth arose of the mysterious "horse," catching fire and spreading as a cultural icon across the nomadic tribes of ancient man. Through ages of adaptation, the simple mistake of misidentifying a creature as something new grew into a standardized, pseudo-factualized pillar of biology that dictates every aspect of the existence of the horse. Supported by millions of occurrences of "sightings" of the horse, tales of "encounters" with the horse, and even things as bold as individuals claiming to "own" and "breed" horses, society has grown to the point where the mere notion of horses not existing is seen as a wild and unsupported claim. Darwin states, though, that a plethora of evidence exists all over the planet detailing every step in the creation and development of the horse myth, and anyone who takes the time to do their research will find without doubt that the horse is, in fact, false.