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Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.4|An 1876 map illustrating the supposed location of Lemuria and the hypothetical dispersal routes of the "12 Race (human categorization)|varieties of men" from their alleged Lemurian origin across the globeLemuria (), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later appropriated by occultists in supposed accounts of human origins. The theory was discredited with the discovery of plate tectonics and continental drift in the 20th century.
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- Scientific origins
- Postulation
- Parallels
- Promulgation
- Supersession
- Theosophy and occultism
- Australia
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- Kumari Kandam
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thumb|upright=1.4|An 1876 map illustrating the supposed location of Lemuria and the hypothetical dispersal routes of the "12 Race (human categorization)|varieties of men" from their alleged Lemurian origin across the globeLemuria (), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later appropriated by occultists in supposed accounts of human origins. The theory was discredited with the discovery of plate tectonics and continental drift in the 20th century.
The hypothesis was proposed as an explanation for the presence of lemur fossils on Madagascar and the Indian subcontinent but not in continental Africa or the Middle East. Biologist Ernst Haeckel's suggestion in 1870 that Lemuria could be the ancestral home of humans caused the hypothesis to move beyond the scope of geology and zoogeography, ensuring its popularity outside of the framework of the scientific community.