Panbiogeography of the Americas

[Frederick W. Schueler]

>Fred R. Rickson wrote:

>
> >You just don't put dots on a map, draw connecting lines,
> > and then hypothesize interconnecting land bridges and call it valid
> >science.

* if your system of connecting lines is entrained in a system
that encodes them as a falsifiable hypothesis, then that sounds like
science to me. Just because 'land bridges' turn out to be continental
rafting doesn't influence the geographic reality of the connections they
describe.

fred schueler.
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