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Show Explorer Sets Forth Sahara as Man's Cradle Upon his return to the United Slates after an lS.OOO-mile exploration explora-tion trip through Africa Dr. Arthur Torrence, I.os Angeles explorer, announces an-nounces his belief that the southern Sahara desert was the cradle of the human race. Not only did he make extensive investigations of the primitive primi-tive tribes and the geological history of the Sahara, but he claims to have found evidence refuting the Darwinian Darwin-ian theory of the origin and perpetuation perpetu-ation of new species. While he does not deny that man evolved from a lower type of animal, he thinks this evolution took place in the southern part of the Sahara. |