PBS Eons: When India Was An Island

PBS Eons has a new episode.  This one is about the island isolation and how it affects evolution.  We see that in the paleontological record of India.

We need to talk about the biggest break-up of all-time: the break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, and how, ultimately, when India smashed back into Asia, it traded one form of evolutionary isolation for another.

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