New palaeozoogeographical evidence for the settlement of Madagascar
@article{Blench2007NewPE, title={New palaeozoogeographical evidence for the settlement of Madagascar}, author={Roger Blench}, journal={Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa}, year={2007}, volume={42}, pages={69 - 82} }
The island of Madagascar split from the African mainland some 50 million years ago, considerably prior to the evolution of humans and indeed primates. Its isolation permitted the evolution of a complex endemic flora and a fauna dominated by lemurs, whose nearest relatives are the lorises and galagos on the African and Asian mainland. Some 35% of the flora and 90% of the fauna are endemic, occurring nowhere else in the world. The absence of human populations for virtually all of this period…
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