a_plutonium wrote:
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:


It turns out that it is you that are wrong. The earliest camelids are
found in North America, from which they passed to Asia over the Bering
Land Bridge, and to South America over the Panama Land Bridge.

I am positive that I am wrong on many of the details, because noone
really
knows the full picture or a fraction of the picture involved. Mine are
not assertions
but logical hunches. As I said in earlier posts, it may be reversed
that potato
came out of South America and became an invasive species in Africa and
Asia
in a long ago past time.

But I want to use the Camel and Llama analogy for that of potato and
tomato.
I am not wrong on that picture that the Camel and Llama were
genetically created
on one continent of a distant ancestor common to both Camel and Llama
and became
migrated over to another continent and evolved separately. So I am
correct on that general
overview, it is the details I am wrong on some details.

So it if the Ancestral Camelid comes from South America and via some
landbridge transports
the Llama over into Asia and then Middle East which evolves into the
camel, well, one can
easily picture that the Ancestral Potato and Tomato came out of South
America and millions of years
ago crossed the land bridge over into Asia and then Middle East and
then Africa and evolved into
what is now known as the tomato.


In fact, there is a very remote chance that the Ancestral Camelid that
came out of South
America which would evolve into the camel once in Asia and Middle
East, that this Ancestral
Camelid brought the Ancestral-Potato tuber across a land bridge and
thus spread it into
Asia.

I seriously doubt that because my Llama does not eat potatoes nor
tomatoes. But a more likely
scenario is that Ancient Humans crossed a land bridge from South
America-- Perhaps the Ocean
waters in the Ice ages created a ocean walk across. And that these
Ancient Humans took Llamas
and potatoes across to Africa. Or up to Alaska and walked across
there.

What I am suggesting is that perhaps the migration of Llama from South
America to Asia or Africa
was the same event that carried the potato across.

Archimedes Plutonium
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