Comments on: Book review – Land Bridges: Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections/2018/09/03/book-review-land-bridges-ancient-environments-plant-migrations-and-new-world-connections/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:23:59 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/03/book-review-land-bridges-ancient-environments-plant-migrations-and-new-world-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-94587Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:23:59 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2121#comment-94587[…] 1880 book Island Life dug deeper into the why. Before continental drift and plate tectonics, land bridges were all the rage though would sometimes have required outlandish proportions to explain observed […]

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]]>By: Book review – Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/03/book-review-land-bridges-ancient-environments-plant-migrations-and-new-world-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-29758Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:32:40 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2121#comment-29758[…] root of it all is plate tectonics. As South America and Australia drifted away from Antarctica, the land bridges connecting these continents were broken and a wild sea was born. For the first time, oceanic […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/03/book-review-land-bridges-ancient-environments-plant-migrations-and-new-world-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-16150Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:04:00 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2121#comment-16150[…] how, as the Tethys Sea was closing up, rising and falling sea levels revealed and sundered land bridges, opening or closing migratory routes in the Mediterranean and Arabian Peninsula. And how, with […]

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]]>By: Book review – Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/03/book-review-land-bridges-ancient-environments-plant-migrations-and-new-world-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-12052Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:23:52 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2121#comment-12052[…] ripped up Gondwanaland, pulling apart Australia and Antarctica. Its completion arrived when the Magellan land bridge between South America and Antarctica was breached, opening up the Drake Passage and allowing the […]

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]]>By: Book review – Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/03/book-review-land-bridges-ancient-environments-plant-migrations-and-new-world-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-6833Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:19:41 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2121#comment-6833[…] the Magellan land bridge between South America and Antarctica was breached (see also my review of Land Bridges: Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections), opening up the Drake Passage and allowing the ocean to flow unimpededly around Antarctica in a […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/03/book-review-land-bridges-ancient-environments-plant-migrations-and-new-world-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-1666Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:31:28 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2121#comment-1666[…] an earlier review, I said that botany was never my greatest love. With The Revolutionary Genius of Plants, Italian […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Tectonic Plates are Moving! | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/09/03/book-review-land-bridges-ancient-environments-plant-migrations-and-new-world-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-1140Mon, 10 Sep 2018 08:12:03 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2121#comment-1140[…] the continents waltzing around and the formation of land bridges (see my recent review of Land Bridges: Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections) influence oceanic and atmospheric circulation, and thus climate, […]

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