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How virtual worlds can recreate the geographic history of life

  • Written by Robert K. Colwell, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Connecticut
Forest near Sarayaku, Ecuador.skifatenum, CC BY

The Amazon and the adjacent Andean slopes in South America host an astonishing richness of plants and animals. These species have been sources of food, shelter and medicine since the arrival of humans and a target of scientific curiosity since the days of the earliest European naturalist explorers.

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