132 Polynesian Andites reached South America, founding the ancestry of the later rulers of the Incas by intermarrying with the natives of the Andes. [1]
Africa connected South America to Europe 220 million years ago during the same epoch when North America began to rise from the sea before a short interruption that left half of its previous beds covered. [2] An amalgamated race of superior potential occupied highlands of South America. [3]
In South America, basic racial types represented in Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid persist in skeletal characteristics that identify present-day human ancestry. [4] The east wind is a god in South America, bringing rain, but a devil in India, bringing dust and causing drought. [5] South America's geology played a crucial role in the evolutionary development of marine life 400 million years ago. [6] There were no rhinoceroses in South America during the last great world-wide animal migration. [7] The predominantly red race in South America was influenced by the yellow, orange, and blue races in the development of enduring civilizations. [8] South America rose out of Pacific depths during the period when one third of the earth's surface became land mass. [9] 500,000,000 years ago, South America began its slow westward drift alongside all the other continents. [10]