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minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up121·edit-22 days ago35 million years of coconuts in Asia and they didn’t float over until after traders established shipping routes to Asia?
minus-square1rre@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·2 days agoYes, but for human related reasons. Humans moved them around a lot in Africa and Asia - moving them from Southeast Asia to India and Madagascar is bound to have an impact on the currents they get caught up in.
minus-squareMatch!!@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·2 days agoare you proposing some kind of Columbus effect where people heading to India will occasionally end up in Taino land by accident
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoSo thanks to humans more coconuts went for a swim?
minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 days agoAccording to the first article that popped up in the search results the most likely theory is portugese traders brought them over from madagascar.
35 million years of coconuts in Asia and they didn’t float over until after traders established shipping routes to Asia?
Yes, but for human related reasons. Humans moved them around a lot in Africa and Asia - moving them from Southeast Asia to India and Madagascar is bound to have an impact on the currents they get caught up in.
are you proposing some kind of Columbus effect where people heading to India will occasionally end up in Taino land by accident
So thanks to humans more coconuts went for a swim?
According to the first article that popped up in the search results the most likely theory is portugese traders brought them over from madagascar.
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