The relationships of the McGregor BoP, based on DNA analysis, wasn't
known in 1996, but plate tectonics sure were!
A statement like "the ancestors of the honeyeaters moved from the
north into New Guinea and Australia" would have been seen as obviously
wrong in 1996 as now. I remember being given the info on the
Australian radiation of passerines when I first arrived in Australian
in 1991, it has broadened since then of course (to include all of the
passerine lineages!), but it was well known as applying to the
obviously 'Australian' families in the mid 1990s.
John Leonard
On 11/07/2008, Hugo Phillipps <> wrote:
> Hi everybody -
>
> Andrew Taylor said:
> > Its unlike the BBC Natural History Unit to make such an obvious error.
> >
>
> I have not seen 'Attenborough in Paradise', but I believe that it was first
> released in 1996. Does it also contain footage from when Attenborough first
> visited New Guinea (in the late 1950s I think)? If so, that was well before
> our current understanding of plate tectonics and the relationships of
> Australasian birds and it would be an anachronism rather than an error.
>
> Cheers,
> Hugo
>
> Hugo Phillipps
> Queenscliff, Vic
>
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John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net
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