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CHAPTER V. THE MAMMOTH IN EUROPE. Multaque in ea (Hercynia sylva)
genera ferarum nasci constat quoe n-li- quis in locis visa non
'int.?Ciesar De Bell. Gall. vi. 25. Distribution of the Mammoth in
Europe?Identity of the Mammalian fauna of the Mammoth age in
Central and Eastern Europe and in Northern Asia?Fauna of tne
Mediterranean region in the Mammoth age?France and' England a
neutral zone between the two districts?Remains of Arctic and
Southern animals found side by side?Theories of successive faunas
and of interglacial periods untenable?Theories of annusl and
periodical migrations similarly untenable?Plants and sedentary
molluscs from northern and southern latitudes found together?The
only possible conclusion that the forms lived and died together. In
the previous chapter I have tried to prove that the abnormal
circumstance of the Mammoth and its companions occupying two areas
now so contrasted in climate and other respects as Europe and
Siberia, is really explained by the climate and physical conditions
of Siberia having greatly altered since the Mnmmoth lived. If we
discard this aberrant factor from the problem, and remember that
Siberia was then, as Europe is now, marked by temperate conditions
of climate, we shall have simplified matters considerably, for,
putting climate aside, Asia and Eastern Europe really form one
physical province. To most of us it is difficult to realize how
purely artificial the terms Europe and Asia are. How they
correspond to nothing, either in historical or physical geography.
The Ural mountains form no frontier that has been of the slightest
interest in history, while as a physical boundary they are of even
less importance. Their moderate height and frequent passes have
formed no barriers, either botanical or zoological, an...
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