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Haeckel, History of Creation
In this map, German biologist Ernst Haeckel plotted the migration of humans from a hypothetical lost continent of Lemuria in the Indian Ocean. Like Darwin, he believed in the common ancestry of all peoples, and this map was his attempt to answer a major question that puzzled proponents of common ancestry: Where did the first humans live? Darwin himself once stated that Africa was the likely place of human origin, but that evidence was still too speculative to be reliable.
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919). History of Creation...., E. Ray Lankester, trans. Vol. 2. London: Henry King, [1868] 1876.
