Alfred Wegener published "The Origin of Continents and Oceans" in 1915; however, his ideas about the mobility of continents only became popular in the 1960s. Why?

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Darb · Answer 1 · 2021-01-26T19:52:06+0000

Nobody believed him at first because they believed there was not enough evidence to support his claim. However, once they started researching, the began to find that there were remains of the same species in continents far away from each other, supporting the theory of Pangea.

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