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IT is well known that many plant and animal taxa have what has been termed an ‘Antarctic’ or ‘Antarctogaean’ distribution, that is, they are mainly or entirely restricted to southern Australia and/or New Zealand, southern South America, and, in some cases, South Africa. This has been accepted by many biogeographers as evidence of an ancient connexion between these land-masses, probably via the Antarctic continent. In particular, it is seen as strong evidence in favour of Wegener's hypothesis of ‘continental drift’, a theory now attaining some respectability in the eyes of the geophysicists1 who were formerly its principal opponents.
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COLLESS, D. Fossil Diptera and Continental Drift. Nature 204, 402–403 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204402b0
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