NARMADA HOMINID, AFRICAN PEDIGREE OR ASIAN KINSHIP | BIONATURE

The magnificent evidence of once-thriving river valley civilizations in the Indian subcontinent may have sown the roots of the popular belief that India was once the cradle of mankind. Eugene Dubois, a Dutch physician, was so taken with Darwin's hypothesis of 'Origin of Species' that he set sail to prove it by seeking to find hard evidence in the form of human fossils from the Javan island's middle latitudes. In the 18th century, Java and a substantial portion of the surrounding country were part of a Dutch colony. Fearful of the legend, Dubois journeyed to Java via the Siwalik hills, which are located in the Himalayan foothills. He couldn't help but declare that "the oriental myth that India was the cradle of man is now thrashed" after discovering the world's first human fossil, the 'Pithecanthropus erectus." All of this occurred in the year 1892. (Hrdlicka, 1930.) Our efforts were not in vain.

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