Which Statement About Biogeography Is False

Which statement about biogeography is false?

A) The biota in contemporary biogeographic regions evolved largely independently of one another during the Tertiary period.
B) Phylogenetic methods contribute to our understanding of biogeography.
C) The most likely explanation for the presence of southern beeches in both South America and New Zealand is that those two areas were once part of the same continent.
D) The theory of continental drift helped explain many of the early mysteries in biogeography.
E) The southern biogeographic regions separated from each other after the northern biogeographic regions did.