Anthropologist Joseph Birdsell has calculated that during glacial maxima, Southeast Asians could have migrated to Australia by island hopping. The mean distance of the eight gaps between islands in Birdsell's view was:
A) a bit more than 100 miles
B) a bit less than 50 miles
C) about 30 miles
D) fewer than 20 miles
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