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How did Monkeys get to South America?

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Coragyps
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02-16-2009 12:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 5 by Engineer
02-16-2009 7:14 AM

What would cause a mega-continent to hold together for so long and then suddenly (relatively speaking) drift thousands of miles apart?
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It happens a lot - every half-billion years or so. Rodinia, Pangaea, Godwanaland.... Remember, our continental plates are just the traces of slag left over from when this place was a molten ball. They are incidental to the big convective patterns that drive the "continental drift" that we see on the surface.
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Coragyps
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02-18-2009 9:18 PM 		Reply to: Message 112 by Dr Adequate
02-18-2009 8:41 PM

Re: A Monkey On A Raft
and the monkeys only have to be lucky once.
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That's the money quote, Engineer. Luck wins this one over prosimian navigational skills.
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