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Caribbean from Asia? did they take the Panama Canal 400 years before it was built? there is not path that isn’t crazy

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Asia via the Pacific to the Americas, then a swallow grabs one and brings it to the Atlantic coast.

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African, or European?

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Excuse you, this is MURICA, those are FREEDOM SWALLOWS 🦅🦅🦅

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They went around the horn like a real man!

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There’s a current originating in Indian ocean flowing south of Africa to the gulf of Mexico, before proceeding north east between Iceland and Great Britain. It’s why Scandinavia is so much warmer than the same latitude in the Americas. I’m 55 north in Denmark, and have hardly seen snow this winter, meanwhile Edmonton in Canada is 2° south of that.

Coconuts bobbing around the south of Africa is pretty wild, but not implausible.

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Great article. It’s worth remembering that DNA is only evidence that someone banged, and I imagine there’s a fair amount of contact that goes on before that.

A North American group from Colombia

I hope this person just meant to say “Native American”, and doesn’t really think Colombia is in North America.

(sorry, I’ve spent the last week proofreading articles…)

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I assumed one finally got lucky and got around the southern tip of Africa while headed west.

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