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- proper noun Mythical lost country, continent, or island proposed to explain the existence of
lemurs on two continents.
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Lemuria is the contestant chosen by the SciFi. com readers.
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The name Lemuria was proposed by Mr. Sclater for an imaginary submerged continent extending from
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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The name Lemuria, as above stated, was originally adopted by Mr. Sclater in recognition of the fact that it was probably on this continent that animals of the Lemuroid type were developed.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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The name Lemuria was proposed by Mr. Sclater for an imaginary submerged continent extending from Madagascar to Ceylon and Sumatra.
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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The name Lemuria was proposed by Mr. Sclater for an imaginary submerged continent extending from Madagascar to Ceylon and Sumatra.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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It was fed by the theory that in the Indian Ocean there once existed a lost continent called Lemuria similar to the Atlantis myth, the original homeland of the Dravidians.
Rajiv Malhotra: How Evangelists Invented 'Dravidian Christianity' Rajiv Malhotra 2011
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It was fed by the theory that in the Indian Ocean there once existed a lost continent called Lemuria similar to the Atlantis myth, the original homeland of the Dravidians.
Rajiv Malhotra: How Evangelists Invented 'Dravidian Christianity' Rajiv Malhotra 2011
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The whole area is called Lemuria now, while the other area, the civilised,
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Geoffrey is Sclater's 'Lemuria' -- that sunken land which, containing parts of Africa, must have extended far eastwards over Southern India and Ceylon, and the highest points of which we recognise in the volcanic peaks of Bourbon and Mauritius, and in the central range of
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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And also the hypothesis of Häckel, that the cradle of mankind was a land between Africa and Asia, now sunk in the sea, and called Lemuria, can be neither proved nor denied.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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