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sahara pump theory

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables
sa-hara pump the-o-ry
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A hypothesis that explains the manner in which flora and fauna migrated between Eurasia and Africa using a land bridge in the Levant region, based on the idea that there were periods of abundant rainfall lasting thousands of years in Africa and associated with a "wet-green Sahara" phase, during which larger lakes and more rivers existed.

Inflected Forms

the Sahara pump theory (canonical)

Questions

What does sahara pump theory mean?
A hypothesis that explains the manner in which flora and fauna migrated between Eurasia and Africa using a land bridge in the Levant region, based on the idea that there were periods of abundant rainfall lasting thousands of years in Africa and associated with a "wet-green Sahara" phase, during which larger lakes and more rivers existed.

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