[Taxacom] Fwd: Bubble science

[John Grehan]

The trouble is that this is all ad hoc. If one assumes that monkeys were
too late for the favorable tides or whatever, then the explanation would at
least be plausible (but does not explain Australia). But such
'explanations' are based on non-evidence. There is no such evidence.

John Grehan


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:54 AM, David Campbell <pleuronaia at gmail.com>wrote:

> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> 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.
> _______________________________________________
> Taxacom Mailing List
> Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
>
> The Taxacom Archive back to 1992 may be searched with either of these
> methods:
>
> (1) by visiting http://taxacom.markmail.org
>
> (2) a Google search specified as:  site:
> mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom  your search terms here
>
> Celebrating 26 years of Taxacom in 2013.
>