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 (1897) (14596896877)

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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University



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islands, is called the Ethiopianregion. The Oriental region includesthe Malay peninsula and islands, Hin-dustan, and Southern Arabia. Aus- PLACE OF THE BEGINNING.—LEMURIA. 179 tralia, Polynesia, and New Zealandare defined as the Australian region.South America, the West Indies, andMexico as far north as the tropic, con-stitute the Neotropical region, while theremainder of North America is definedas the Nearctic region. The problem iswith the map thus adjusted, to deter-mine by orders, suborders, and familiesthe distribution of the primate animals. which we have fixed upon as the prob-able home of the first men, was held inbetween the two approxi- Place of sup- 1 _L posed continent mate parts defined in the between Ethio- . - . , „ , . . pian and Orien- above table as the Ethiopian tai regions,and Oriental regions. A glance at thesynopsis will show the astonishing pre-ponderance of the primate animals inthose countries. True, the largest sin-gle distribution is that of one hundred
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AMERICAN MONKEY WITH PREHENSILE TAIL. The following table prepared by Win-chell contains an abstract of the results: DISTRIBUTION OF PRIMATE AND CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS. No. of Families. Apes Old World Monkey> Baboons and Macaques., American Monkeys Marmosets a. Total Anthropoids Lemurs...Tassiers.. Aye-ayes. Total Lemuroids. Total Primates. Carnivora Total Primates andCarnivora 70 Otfl ■Set .2 a~ 9i;3) < 50 105 90 195 I 161 °-2 g,2 33114 11448 43 It will be remembered by the readerthat the supposed continent of Lemuria, and fourteen species in South America;but it has been noted that the SouthAmerican primates are much lower inorder of development than are those ofSouthern Asia and Eastern Africa. Noapes 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