Two rather different elements combine to explain the origin of this
volume: one scientific and one personal. The broader of the two is
the scientific basis-the time for such a volume had arrived.
Geology had made remarkable progress toward an understanding of the
phys ical history of the Caribbean Basin for the last 100 million
years or so. On the biological side, many new discoveries had
elucidated the distributional history of terrestrial orga nisms in
and between the two Americas. Geological and biological data had
been combined to yield the timing of important events with
unprecedented resolution. Clearly, when each of two broad
disciplines is making notable advances and when each provides new
insights for the other, the rewards of cross-disciplinary contacts
increase exponentially. The present volume represents an attempt to
bring together a group of geologists, paleontologists and
biologists capable of exploiting this opportunity through
presentation of an interdisciplinary synthesis of evidence and
hypothesis concerning interamerican connections during the
Cretaceous and Cenozoic. Advances in plate tectonics form the basis
for a modern synthesis and, in the broadest terms, dictate the
framework within which the past and present distributions of
organisms must be interpreted. Any scientific dis cipline must seek
tests of its conclusions from data outside of its own confines."
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