“…His love for pachyderms developed further when he undertook study on man - elephant conflict. He chose Hasanur, a village along the Tamil Nadu - Karnataka border, for his study. Dr. Sukumar studied natural ecology of elephants, focussing on the man-elephant conflict, which was later published as a book by Cambridge University Press.” - The Hindu
“English scientists ventured to challenge their world famous country-fellow Charles Darwin. Cambridge University scientists cast doubts on the hypothesis, which says that a human being originated from an ape-like ancestor. Our common ancestor is rather strange-looking, and it does not look like a human being at all. It is an anteater.” The researchers compared the chromosomes of a human being, an ant-eater and African and Asian elephants and found that they all share common chromosomes but that humans are closer to the ground pig than any of the other animals. - Pravda
