Horse Sense, Nonsense and Heaven on Earth?

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." So quipped the comedian W.C. Fields. It might seem ridiculously implausible, but in some ways horses indeed have more sense than humans. In pace, horses have made us surpass our biological evolution. They very swiftly enabled our cultural evolution into civilisation. This book explores whether this means heaven on earth for us. Since horses provide the textbook case of the evolution of physical rather than mental ...