#wallace line

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La Wallace Line

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The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart by PBS Eons

In between two of the islands of Indonesia, there’s an ancient line that is both real and…not real. 

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The Gromit Line

A British claymation film about the comical discovery of the field of biogeography.

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Currently attending a seminar about discovering new species in Indonesia’s mountain forest. Particularly focusing on rodents, some cool critters so far, I can’t wait to share later on with you guys.

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#41: Across the Wallace Line

This essay explores the geology and natural history of the Malay Archipelago, as presented in Wallace’s book, to understand key tenets of bi

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"The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart"

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About the Wallace line

This is a link to a map of the Wallace line

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Wallace_map_archipelago.jpg

Poster from Science-art.com "In the archipelago there are two distinct faunas rigidly circumscribed, which differ as much as those in South America and Africa and more than those of Europe and North America.  Yet there is nothing on the map or on the face of the islands to mark their limits.  The boundary line often passes between islands closer than others in the same group  --Alfred Russel Wallace, 1858 in a letter to his friend Henry Walter Bates.