Species with Amnesia: Our Forgotten History

The British zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913) noted the particular distribution of a particular group of primates - the Lemurs. He observed that while 30 different species of Lemurs are found in Madagascar alone, all of Africa contains some 11 or 12, while the Indian region has only 3. He provided a possible answer - Madagascar, with it's rich diversity of species, was the primordial homeland of lemurs which spread all over Asia and Africa by a land bridge connecting once these continents. He named this supposed land bridge/continent appropriately "Lemuria". To my fellow Anthropologists that are really into taxonomy, please keep in mind that Sclater included in his Lemuridae more species than modern zoologists - the Lemurs, the Indri and the Aye-aye, the Galagos (found in Africa), the Loris (found in Asia) and the Tarsiers (found in Indonesia). 

Species with Amnesia: Our Forgotten History 
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