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By 15 million years ago the continents had largely assumed their current positions and a latitudinal temperature gradient very similar to the present one had been established.
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.
The NOAA data show the hottest days ever recorded on various continents, in declining order.
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.
However, much of this precipitation falls over the ocean in the south, leaving the more temperate parts of the southern continents as dry as their northern counterparts (Bonan 2002).