[Taxacom] Fwd: Bubble science

[David Campbell]

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> > Those darned monkeys are supposed to have hopped, skipped, jumped and
> otherwise rafted their way all across the Atlantic, but somehow could not
> face the terrors of sea passage to Madagascar, or even the smaller water
> gaps to Australia.
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Current direction is an important complication.  In the case of Madagascar,
it was rather more favorable to dispersal to there earlier, but tending to
wash away any waifs more recently.  I don't know how closely the others
have been examined.