Rob Lamb

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5,909 appearances 17 recordings 2 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

You again, you can see why this book was such a success and it was read by other naturalists, but also just m just members of the general public who are interested in the topic, interested in faraway lands and in the natural world. voice-verified

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Now to be clear, it was putrid smelling because of all the bird skinning he was doing. voice-verified

He's this is not a general comment on um on the region or the peoples there. voice-verified

This was this was his mess. voice-verified

Yeah, and on this map here it looks like a big old heart, like a big old Valentine. voice-verified

They even colored it red. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And I was in the the eastern part of this very region. voice-verified

Yeah, I mean it's again, it's it's not like if you take a kangaroo and have it walk over the Wallace line, it will explode. voice-verified

Like so there's no it it it becomes v very difficult to actually test out some of these things. voice-verified

It's it's based on a number of observations and vectors. voice-verified

Yeah, and this is what they were trying to figure out, obviously, in the uh the late nineteenth century. voice-verified

Um, but as as we'll be discussing here, they didn't have uh voice-verified

all the information they needed in order to really understand uh or and and to make uh what we would think of as a modern uh theory as to why it was like this. voice-verified

Uh yeah, and just getting a little bit into a little more into just sort of the history of Wallace and Darwin uh in trying to figure out, you know, why the Wallace line seemed to be a thing. voice-verified

What you know, how this boundary worked and what were the factors behind it. voice-verified

Again, as you mentioned, you know, we didn't have continental drift in a sort of crystallized form until nineteen twelve, and we didn't have plate tectonics until the like the nineteen sixties. voice-verified

Again, and it's more crystallized, except it for voice-verified

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