THE EARLIEST RACE
BELIEF OF GENERAL C. SMUTS.
EXISTENCE IN SAHARA.
‘ Caps Town, July 6. General Smuts, in an address to the South African Royal Society, brilliantly, surveyed geological, climatic and anthropological research in recent years, and adopted the view that the original home of the homo sapiens was in the Sahara. , ' This race, he believed, invaded Europe from. 40,000 to 50,000, years ago and the forbears of the bushmen and the Europeans of to-day were not then very far apart in type and race. The bushmen degenerated owing to desert conditions in Africa.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1932, Page 5
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