Abstract
THE island of New Guinea is a centre of distribution for species belonging to the Papuan fauna, which is very distinct and very rich in variety of forms. Yet the bulk of this huge island is part of the Himalayan geanticline, and therefore geologically recent. Since the fauna cannot have evolved upon land recently raised from the sea, there must have been older land from which the new land was populated.
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Cheesman, L. Origin of the Papuan Insect Fauna. Nature 139, 1094–1096 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391094a0
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