Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Continent marker<br/>
Date: May 16, 2001 @ 06:54<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-37030887">Wallace came up with an evolutionary theory contemporary to Darwin. He was <br/>
working in the dutch East Indies, and dicovered a massive and abrupt line of <br/>
species demarcation between Borneo and Clebes and Bali and Lombok.<br/>
The increased eepth of the water here meant species could not leap the <br/>
strait so easily when water levels were lower in past eons, but on either <br/>
side the islands were connected. So the physical gap in ages past meant <br/>
different districbutions of species on either side today, and those on <br/>
either side in the past could evolve separatley with less interaction.<br/>
BW<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; &gt;Remember the Wallace line in Indonesia!<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;how could we forget now<br/>
&gt;but tell us<br/>
&gt;what was it again<br/>
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