Licht Lab

National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Ile-de-France (FR1) · France

ERC-funded
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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021

A climatic or tectonic control on early primate dispersal? A new approach to investigate species dispersal in deep time

Recent studies show that the distribution of many modern terrestrial species can be explained by a handful amount of large-scale dispersals and that these episodes will likely become more numerous under climatic stress. However, the underlying mechanisms governing these dispersals remain nebulous. Long-distance dispersals across marine barriers, often referred to sweepstakes dispersals, have always been assumed to be an unpredictable process in which taxa overcome a geographic barrier in a random manner. Yet, there are many instances of dispersals across marine barriers that appear coordinated and non-random. New paleontological findings show that during a short time period marked by…

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