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There is no direct evidence to show when the first man appeared on the earth and at which place he was born. In fact, the origin of man is shrouded in mystery. But the protagonists of the ‘Theory of Evolution’ believe that man is the last product of slow evolution of life on the earth. The anthropologists opine that the ancestors of the first man were born in the region to the east of the Victoria Lake in east Africa. The oldest fossils of the ancestors of Homo Sapiens (Modem Man) are found in that part of Africa. From this region, modern man migrated and entered into Asia, Europe and the Subcontinent of India around one million years back (Fig. 13.1).