India The motherland of the human race History essay
Mark Twain once famously said that India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and a cornerstone of what Pal described as his "constructive study of Indian thought and ideals'. This story of the nation as Mother was the literary and cultural Indigeneity may be useful for others, but we can pull the plug on it in India. Human rights and justice Nations and empires Politics and government. 2. In a country of such extraordinary diversity, the UN definition of "indigenous" does little more than fuel ethnic violence. Here is evidence for three theories that explain how the first humans arrived in the Americas: the land bridge theory, the trans-Pacific theory, migration theory, and the controversial Solutrean hypothesis. The idea that humans evolved in Africa can be traced back to Charles Darwin. In his book The Descent of Man, Darwin speculated that it was 'probable' that Africa was the cradle of man.