Grateful for this reference. Disjunct taxa in birds and plants have always fascinated me. That’s one reason I’m familiar with plate tectonics. I know of many publications on biogeography but few if any deal with trans-Pacific cases. I’m looking forward to see MacCarthy’s paper.
GeoDude I’ve printed your post. It’ll keep me contented for a long while!
Mangetout, Erroneous, I’ll add S. Warren Carey to my list of admired people. They are very few: Croizat in biogeography, Koonrad Elst in history of Indo-Europeans…
Remember kids, continental drift is just a theory, like evolution, atoms, relativity, and gravity. Don’t get me started on gravity.
I’m glad I’m not the only one picturing protesters with signs along the beach, chanting: “Hell, no, we won’t go!”
It gets France further away from us? Who’d object to that?
Add Geoffrey Burbidge in cosmology to your list of academic iconoclasts, as we discussed in this recent thread on quasars.