Joe McCormick

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4,384 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard yesterday

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind · From the Vault: The Wallace Line, Part 2 · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

It's a great place to have a a leather diaper barbarian face some psychic monsters. voice-verified

That's right. voice-verified

Uh and again to clarify, uh we talked about this last time, but spiritualism is different than what people mean when they say, like, I'm spiritual today. voice-verified

Spiritualism then meant the belief that you could make contact with and communicate with the dead or with spirits other than living humans. voice-verified

And uh and that kind of contact was exciting to a lot of people who were in the sciences. voice-verified

They were like, Hey, look, here's something we can study empirically. voice-verified

Let's, you know, let's study it. voice-verified

Let's voice-verified

Let's take notes. voice-verified

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Land bridges explain a lot, but they don't explain how life forms got to Easter Island or to Hawaii for that matter. voice-verified

And again, he was aware of the idea of past sea level changes due to changes in how much of Ur Earth's water is locked up in ice. voice-verified

So I was looking for some more recent papers on the Wallace line, and I came across one that I thought was pretty interesting. voice-verified

This was a twenty twenty three study published in the journal Science by Skiels et al. voice-verified

called Paleoenvironments Shaped by Exchange of Terrestrial Vertebrates Across Wallace's line. voice-verified

The authors in this paper start off by establishing a concept called biotic interchange. voice-verified

This is what happens when the flora and fauna of two previously separate regions are suddenly allowed to move into each other. voice-verified

They're allowed to freely colonize one another's regions. voice-verified

Uh examples of this usually occur when a barrier to travel between two places is suddenly removed. voice-verified

And suddenly here would be a a relative modifier, sudden, suddenly on geologic time. voice-verified

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