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To determine: The ways by which the continental-drift theory helps in explaining the disjunct distribution of marsupial animals in Australia and South America.
Introduction: Alfred Wegener was a German geophysicist and meteorologist who first presented the idea of continental drift in 1912. He concluded that all the landmasses moved and formed a supercontinent, which is called Pangaea.
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