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The advent of jet travel--and supersonic jet travel--has made it possible for them to work virtually simultaneously not just in several cities but on several continents.
Basing their theories on evidence found in magnetite grains in Australian bedrock, researchers at Caltech posit that 550 million years ago, continents at the poles scooted toward the equator while equatorial continents shimmied to the poles, all within a mere 15 million years.
As we come together from three continents to inaugurate the Student Forum in PLoS Medicine , we are committed to ensuring that this section of the journal remains a source of vigorous debate and thoughtful analysis.
Thus, although the variation of metabolic rate with latitude is becoming increasingly well known for a variety of groups, Lovegrove (2000) has recently suggested, based on comparative work taking both species body mass and phylogeny into account, that unpredictability of resources associated with considerable inter-annual unpredictability in rainfall (in turn partly a consequence of El Niño–associated variability) has been responsible for the evolution of generally low metabolic rates in terrestrial mammals of most of the southern continents.
Whole continents vanished from our future in an instant.