Principles of Biology
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ISBN: 9781259875120
Author: Robert Brooker, Eric P. Widmaier Dr., Linda Graham Dr. Ph.D., Peter Stiling Dr. Ph.D.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Different countries like America, Africa and Australia has similar biomes, ranging from tropical to temperate, yet each continent has a distinctive animal life. The relative location of landmasses on Earth has changed over time as the result of continental drift. The current distribution of essentially flightless bird families in the southern hemisphere is the result of continental drift.
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