America Quote by Louis Leakey

South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Could animals have migrated to a part of the world they were previously familiar with (latitude and longitude)? We’ve always wondered this. If a…

— Ken Ham

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa,…

— Harry Johnston

“The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe.…

— Madison Grant

“The sea barrier prevented not just humans but also many other Afro-Asian animals and plants from reaching this ‘Outer World’. As a result, the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather…

— Jared Diamond

“Humans first evolved in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, which means ‘Southern Ape’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Fishing villages might have appeared on the coasts of Indonesian islands as early as 45,000 years ago. These may have been the base from…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

— David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

— David Quammen