Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-08-20
Books mentioned on Short Stuff: The Lost (?) Continent of Lemuria
Why aren't there lemurs in Africa? That question created a whole theory about a lost continent.
Josh Clark discussed The Geography of Mammals by William Lutley Sclater and others, The History of Creation by Ernst Haeckel, and The Secret Doctrine by Helena P. Blavatsky.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Geography of Mammals
Discussed“So, we've talked about this stuff before in terms of like land bridges and things like that, but he wrote a book in 1864 called The Mammals of Madagascar. No colon, just clean and simple. Good for you, Schlater.”
Where to get it
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The History of Creation
Discussed“Uh there was one guy, a German biologist named Ernst Heckle, and he wrote a book called History of Creation. No colon. They didn't have colons back then.”
Where to get it
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The Secret Doctrine
The Secret Doctrine by Helena P.
Discussed“she wrote a book called The Secret Doctrine came out in 1888 and by this time Lamria is not it's no longer like it's out of the realm of science. It's now into the new age movement.”
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