tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865317325288095914.post1361549359372207918..comments2024-10-24T19:47:00.309+05:00Unknown[email protected]Blogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865317325288095914.post-21942636712947855092023-09-05T20:39:57.476+05:002023-09-05T20:39:57.476+05:00Original text from “The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex” Charles R. Darwin, Charles Murray, ed. Vol. 2, 1871, Page 199.<br /><br />“On the Birthplace and Antiquity of Man.—We are naturally led to enquire where was the birthplace of man at that stage of descent when our progenitors diverged from the Catarhine stock. The fact that they belonged to this stock clearly shews that they inhabited the Old World; but not Australia nor any oceanic island, as we may infer from the laws of geographical distribution. In each great region of the world the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region. It is therefore probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee; and as these two species are now man&#39;s nearest allies, it is somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere. But it is useless to speculate on this subject, for an ape nearly as large as a man, namely the Dryopithecus of Lartet, which was closely allied to the anthropomorphous Hylobates, existed in Europe during the Upper Miocene period; and since so remote a period the earth has certainly undergone many great revolutions, and there has been ample time for migration on the largest scale.”<br /><br /> I am rather pleased to see that Darwin was correct again.Gary S. Hurdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08296691454238708856[email protected]