Monkey travel in evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 22, 2015, 18:47 (3349 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: The relationship between African and South American monkeys appears to be established, but how did the monkeys originate in Africa and get to South America. The current theory is they crossed the ocean, but how? They would starve on drifting raft travel.
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> http://phys.org/news/2015-02-fossils-heart-amazon-evidence-south.html
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> dhw: Is it beyond the realms of possibility that (a) fossils may one day be found that date back to when Africa and South America were one land mass, and/or (b) that the dating of continental drift is wrong? I'd find either of those explanations more convincing than a load of raft-building transoceanic monkey-explorers.-It is just another puzzle. It seem well-established that monkeys are about 30 myo. And SA and Africa split about 60 million years ago. But you never know. Think of the very recent discovery of Hobbits, the humanoids of tiny size. Quite a surprise, that!