The mystery that haunted Darwin: how do land snails get to oases in the middle of the Sahara desert, and to the most distant oceanic islands?
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| Médium: | artículo original |
| Stav: | Versión publicada |
| Datum vydání: | 2020 |
| Popis: | I can imagine how, over 150 years ago, Emma Darwin showed her usual patience and love when her husband Charles began to submerge land snails in seawater. What was Charles trying to do? Actually, he was trying to solve one of the great mysteries of nature, how the slow and fragile land snails appear in the midst of the deadliest deserts, and on distant islands that were never connected to a continent. |
| Země: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Instituce: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/51641 |
| On-line přístup: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/51641 |