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For decades, researchers from Brazil and around the world have been delving into the various faces of the Amazon. More than 50 years ago, for example, the German geologist J\u00fcrgen Haffer, who died in 2010 at the age of 77, developed the so-called Refuge Theory, without using that name at the time. Brazilian zoologist Paulo Vanzolini – yes, the samba singer who also made Pra\u00e7a Cl\u00f3vis and Samba Erudito, as well as several other songs – helped to develop the scientific thesis, even indirectly. “I didn’t do any theory,” he used to say in life. In a nutshell, the theory – and the practice of decades of research – shows how biological diversity in the Amazon is associated with periods of dry climate and geographical isolation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":25441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1728],"tags":[],"veiculo":[2261],"ano":[1590],"eixos":[],"class_list":["post-70994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artigo-externo-en","veiculo-estadao-en"],"yoast_head":"\n