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| When the meteor hit, South America and North America were not yet joined. This meant that the evolutionary recovery of their faunas and floras occurred as essentially two giant experiments in evolution, the free mixing of which did not occur in a major way until the two land masses were joined by the final closing of the Central American connection just 3 million years ago. | ||
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