Question

The theory of the Lemuria continent was proposed in the-----.
A) 17th Century
B) 18thCentury
C) 19th Century
D) 20th century

Answer 1

Hint:
i) In 1864, a zoologist named Philip Sclater was puzzled by the presence of the fossils in both the regions of Madagascar and India.
ii) After that ‘Philip Sclater’ used to believe that Madagascar and India had once been part of a larger continent which we know today as GONDWANA. But, his theories about Lemuria disapproved in the 1960s.

Complete answer:
The theory of the Lemuria continent was proposed in the 19th century. The ancient "Lemuria'', was a hypothetical continent which was originally the home of the Lemurs. It extended across the Indian Ocean and the Indian Peninsula to the further side of the Bay of Bengal and over the great islands of the Indian Archipelago." Lemuria was the continent according to this theory.

This theory was presented by zoologist Philip Sclater (1829-1913. Several Apologists claimed that the Lumeria continent was the homeland of the human ancestors, who were known as Lumerians.
Later it was counted in one of the popularizing the myth of Lemurian inhabitants and about their homeland. Thus, Lemurian theory was later discarded with the other theory of Continental Drift.

This theory of the Lemuria continent was proposed as the fossils of lemur found in both South India and the Madagascar region only. Basically, Philip Sclater was an English biogeographer and a geologist, whose theory was later disproved and got replaced by other scientific theories in the 1960s.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note:
i) In the 20th century, scientists accepted Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.
ii) This theory was proposed in 1912, according to this theory, the land of the whole earth was united into a supercontinent.
iii) But later his theory was replaced by another theory of continental drift given by Alfred Wegener's a German geophysicist.