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Re: Gondwana Split May Complicate Mammalian Evolution



In a message dated 1/22/02 11:11:35 PM, jodan99@uol.com.br writes:

<< I think it not necessarily complicate mammalian evolution, but make it

clearer. It seems a logical pattern. The problem is that science has allways

been very influenced by cultural concepts. Since most of paleontologists

came from Northern countries, mainly USA and Western Europe, these regions

was allways be considered as the center of evolution. Northern faunae are

ever been named as "advanced" and "superior", and Souther faunae as

"inferior" or "archaic". Modern discoveries are revealing a pattern that

will turn current points of view. >>

Anti-Gondwanan racism....yeah, sure...

eric l.