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Continental Drift
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The video discusses the theory of continental drift, first proposed by Alfred Wagner in 1912, to explain the similarity of fossils found in West Africa and South America. Initially not accepted, the theory gained traction in the 1950s when convection currents from hot magma were identified as a plausible mechanism.
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