The Dawn Races of Early Man

62:1.1The early lemurs con­cerned in the an­ces­try of the hu­man species were not di­rectly re­lated to the pre-ex­is­tent tribes of gib­bons and apes then liv­ing in Eura­sia and north­ern Africa, whose progeny have sur­vived to the pres­ent time. Nei­ther were they the off­spring of the mod­ern type of lemur, though spring­ing from an an­ces­tor com­mon to both but long since ex­tinct.

62:1.2While these early lemurs evolved in the West­ern Hemi­sphere, the es­tab­lish­ment of the di­rect mam­malian an­ces­try of man­kind took place in south­west­ern Asia, in the orig­i­nal area of the cen­tral life im­plan­ta­tion but on the bor­ders of the east­ern re­gions. Sev­eral mil­lion years ago the North Amer­i­can type lemurs had mi­grated west­ward over the Bering land bridge and had slowly made their way south­west­ward along the Asi­atic coast. These mi­grat­ing tribes fi­nally reached the salu­bri­ous re­gion ly­ing be­tween the then ex­panded Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea and the el­e­vat­ing moun­tain­ous re­gions of the In­dian penin­sula. In these lands to the west of In­dia they united with other and fa­vor­able strains, thus es­tab­lish­ing the an­ces­try of the hu­man race.

62:1.3With the pass­ing of time the sea­coast of In­dia south­west of the moun­tains grad­u­ally sub­merged, com­pletely iso­lat­ing the life of this re­gion. There was no av­enue of ap­proach to, or es­cape from, this Mes­o­po­ta­mian or Per­sian penin­sula ex­cept to the north, and that was re­peat­edly cut off by the south­ern in­va­sions of the glaciers. And it was in this then al­most par­a­di­si­a­cal area, and from the su­pe­rior de­scen­dants of this lemur type of mam­mal, that there sprang two great groups, the simian tribes of mod­ern times and the pres­ent-day hu­man species.