Homo Erectus, Guys, Not HSS

[Anomalocaris]

Some of these rafts were recorded to have carried live animals all the way across the Indian Ocean to Africa.

I'd like to see the source for that one.  What would they have eaten on the way?

Yet some old world monkeys evidently drifted all the way across the Atlantic to South America to become ancesters of new world monkeys on mats of vegetation.

Or they were carried across the relatively narrow passage between Africa and So America by boat-building HE.  The winds and currents are perfect for an east-to-west crossing....although the return trip would be pretty damned hard.

Vegetation like coconut trees were also borne along by the pumice raft.  These rafts carried all sorts of tsunami debris.  Granted what got to Africa this way in 1888 were insects and rodents, but Africa was vastly further away than the distance between islands on either sides of the deeper straits in the phillipines.

Old world monkeys made it to the new world 40 million years before what would be the first homo erectus have yet been a glimmer in the eye of a horny homo ergaster.   Unless early monkeys built boats, they didn’t get there by boat.

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It's roughly 8,000 KM from the Sunda Strait to Africa.  That's a long journey on a raft without food or water.  I wonder how long it would take?  Anything over 2 weeks is problematical.

6 month to a year.