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this story doesn't add up - it suggests the birds were there 10,000 years apart while it was submerged for 36,000 years?
by simplesleeper 7y ago
this story doesn't add up - it suggests the birds were there 10,000 years apart while it was submerged for 36,000 years?
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- klyrs 7y agoI literally cited the first hit from the most obvious google search. You sound curious and dissatisfied with the science reporting. Why don't you look up the paper, possibly use sci-hub if it isn't freely available, and actually read what the scientists say?
- lurquer 7y agoThe dissatisfaction is warranted as the article is ONLY noteworthy IFF one assumes there was a complete extinction event on the atol. Without the assumption of this extinction event, the story is simply this: "There are rails on this island. And, there are fossils of rails on this island."
- simplesleeper 7y agoI was hoping someone would save me the searching and link me directly to relevant papers. I think the article should have done it itself, as the assumption is rather fundamental to the whole theory. Similarly I didn't see any mention of intermediate evolutionary stages being found for either a case 1 or 2? If someone sees a paper that does that, it'd be cool