Ernst Haeckel's Map Of Lemurian Human Origins
by Library Of Congress/science Photo Library
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Ernst Haeckel's Map Of Lemurian Human Origins
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Library Of Congress/science Photo Library
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Map showing humans originating on the hypothetical lost continent of Lemuria. This map is a version of an illustration from Ernst Haeckel's The History of Creation 1876. While Darwin correctly suspected an African origin for mankind, Haeckel hypothesised a lost continent of Lemuria from which the various races of mankind had spread. Though there seemed little basis in geology for this supposition, it suited his own racial ideologies and would help him explain the (then) rarity of human fossils (on account of them being lost on a drowned continent). It also helped explain the anomalous distribution of Lemurs (hence the name) in the seemingly disconnected realms of Africa, Madagascar, India and Asia. We now have many early hominid fossils from Africa and explain lemur distributions with continental drift.
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