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Updated: May 10, 2025
Thus far we have not found in the geological strata any vestiges of the half-apes, which, according to the hypothesis of the evolutionists, as a common stem-line for the lines of ape and man development, once played such an important rôle, and which have quite numerous representatives.
Out of the fish he concludes that the amphibia were developed, and out of those the reptilia, out of one of them the marsupialia, and from them the lemurs or half-apes, the representatives of which yet live in Madagascar and the southern part of Asia.
The order includes the femurs, a large and primitive family with ape-like features the Germans call them "half-apes" the monkeys, the man-like apes, and man. This classification according to structure corresponds with the successive appearance of the various families in the geological record.
They are gloomy and melancholic animals; they live a quiet life, climbing trees, and eating fruit and insects. They are of different kinds. The numerous fossil remains of half-apes and apes that have been recently found in the Tertiary deposits justify us in thinking that man's ancestors were represented by several different species during this long period.
The lemurs or half-apes are the stem-group, descending from the older Mallotheria of the Cretaceous period. From them the apes were evolved in the Tertiary period, and man was formed from these towards its close. But they are very interesting, and are the last survivors of a once extensive group.
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