Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . s or any of the higher primates havebeen found native in any part of theNew World. Leaving out, therefore,from the count the South Americanmonkeys and marmosets, which are thevery lowest of the anthropoids, we havethe primates virtually limited to thesouthern parts of Asia and the tropicalparts of Africa. The same is true of the lemuroids,which are found only in the Ethiopianand Oriental regions, with the singleex
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . s or any of the higher primates havebeen found native in any part of theNew World. Leaving out, therefore,from the count the South Americanmonkeys and marmosets, which are thevery lowest of the anthropoids, we havethe primates virtually limited to thesouthern parts of Asia and the tropicalparts of Africa. The same is true of the lemuroids,which are found only in the Ethiopianand Oriental regions, with the singleexception of one species of Tarsiers for 180 GRR. IT RA CES OF JRINKIND. nivora increasetoward Indianocean. Australia. In the case of the carnivorathere is, in the regions just named, an Lemurs and Car- excess of flllly fifty per cent over the number ofspecies found in any othergreat division of the earth. From allof which we note conclusively and em-phatically the climacteric tendency of allthe higher forms of life, most particu-larly of the primate animals toward thebasin of the Indian ocean. On the hy-pothesis that the bottom of this com-paratively shallow sea constituted in. GROUP OK LEMURS. prehistoric ages a low-lying, tropicalcontinent—reaching on the one hand tothe Asiatic peninsulas, and on the otherto the coast of Africa—we are able tosee with strong probability in this re-gion an apex of the animal evolution,and near that culmination the ancestorsof the human species. The argument is intensified when weestimate the character of the humanspecies round about the seeming cul-mination of the lower orders of life in theLemurian region. While these orders,as we have seen, rise to an apex in the direction of the Indian ocean, the humanspecies fall of inversely in the same di-rection. This is said of .._-,, - Mankind falls off the general character of inversely in the , „ same direction. the different races as meas-ured by the extent of their departurefrom Lemuria. I
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