62 THE LESSON OF EVOLUTION 



As these races spread over the earth they again 

 ame in contact with each other, and crosses be- 

 tween them arose which have made it extremely 

 difficult to distinguish the original races, and to 

 decide which is the best or most correct manner of 

 grouping them. It is impossible at present to give 

 a correct account of the wanderings of man , but the 

 following is an outline of the opinions held by some 

 of the best Ethnologists. 



Man appears to have originated in the neighbour- 

 hood of Burma or Java, where alone we find early 

 pliocene man. From here he spread in three direc- 

 tions. 1. South into Australia and Tasmania. 2. 

 West through India into Africa and Europe (forming 

 Palaeolithic man). 3. Into the high lands of Thibet 

 and West China (the Turanian Kace) ; from whence 

 some spread to Central Asia, forming the Mongo- 

 lians, while others crossed over into North America, 

 forming the American Indians. Others of the early 

 Turanians passed into the mountainous region 

 between the Hindu Kush and the Caucasus, inclu- 

 ding Armenia, and these gave rise to the Caucasian 

 Bace. 



The Caucasians migrating north into the Kirghiz 

 Steppes and central Eussia became the Teutons. 

 Others went back through northern India and 

 Burma to the Malay Archipelago (Indonesians), and 

 finally to Polynesia. 



From Armenia a branch spread south into Arabia 

 (the Semites), another to Egypt and N. Africa (the 

 Hamites), crossing the Mediterranean into Europe 

 at the close of the paleolithic age. At a later date 



