Are you retarded or something? I didn't write this paper. But it is in a peer reviewed scientific journal. don't you care about that, or only stuff about setting up colonies of canvas clad humans in Utah?

Say Mark, since you are such a sself proclaimed scientific expert, when can we expect to see some of your scientific writings? Meanwhile here is the abstract from the peer reviewed journal. Please do send your sarcastic comments to the researchers involved. I'm sure once they find out you are in the Mars Society they will put your email in their junk bin.

Journal of Biogeography
Volume 30 Issue 10 Page 1545 - October 2003
doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00929.x

The trans-Pacific zipper effect: disjunct sister taxa and matching geological outlines that link the Pacific margins
Dennis McCarthy*

Abstract

AimTo combine analyses of trans-Pacific sister taxa with geological evidence in order to test the hypothesis of the existence of a Panthalassa superocean.

Location The study is concerned with taxa, both fossil and extant, from East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South America and North America.

MethodsPhylogenetic and distributional analyses of trans-Pacific biota were integrated with geological evidence from the Pacific and circum-Pacific regions.

ResultsA series of recent biogeographical analyses delineates a zipper-like system of sister areas running up both margins of the Pacific, with each section of western North and South America corresponding to a particular section from East Asia/Australia/New Zealand. These sister areas coincide neatly with a jigsaw-like fit provided by the matching Mesozoic coastlines that bracket the Pacific.

Main conclusionsThe young age (<200 Myr) of oceanic crust, the matching Mesozoic circum-Pacific outlines, and a corresponding system of interlocking biogeographical sister areas provide three independent avenues of support for a closed Pacific in the Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic. The hypothesis of the existence and subsequent subduction of the pre-Pacific superocean Panthalassa is not only unnecessary, it conflicts with this evidence. Panthalassa-based paleomaps necessitate the invention of dozens of additional hypotheses of species-dependent, trans-oceanic dispersal events, often involving narrow-range taxa of notoriously limited vagility, in order to explain repeated examples of the same biogeographical pattern. Removing the vanished-superocean hypothesis reunites both the matching geological outlines and all the disjunct sister taxa. In brief, what appears to be a multi-era tangle of convoluted, trans-oceanic distributions on Panthalassa-based paleomaps is actually a relatively simple biogeographical pattern that is explainable by a single vicariant event: the opening and expansion of the Pacific.

BD