David B. MacKenzie reminds us that we might have gone back 114 years to Darwin who, like later biologists, found no reason to move continents to account for the presence of the varied tetrapod fauna on the Galapagos Islands (Meyerhoff and Meyerhoff, 1972a, p. 291). We did go back as far as 1883 (Oldham) and 1885 (Middlemiss) to find that even 85 to 90 years ago paleontologic and lithofacies evidence was being accumulated to demonstrate that India was firmly attached to the Asiatic continent and shared the Tethyan fauna with the Near East and Mediterranean when drifters would...
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