es. Never mind t James ton anysucatic arrangement ually result in a featureless sps. trated by Rutury, t Earts —mucoomuco allo of cooling and sed. And any tains sributed across tently t, and of more or less t by t t some ranges, like time unately, Alfred egener t geologists .
For a start, ions questioned tions of tive o generate , but egener eorologist, for goodness sake. A remediable deficiencies.
And so geologists took every pain to dismiss tleions. to get around tributions, ted ancient “landbridges” ime, a land bridge lantic. ancient tapirs ed simultaneously in Sout Asia a land bridge oo. Soon maps of preoricseas solid o Europe, fromBrazil to Africa, from Sout Asia to Australia, from Australia to Antarctica. tive tendrils only conveniently appeared o move aliving organism from one landmass to anot t leaving atrace of tence. None of ted by so mucual evidence—not it ury.
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