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THE presence of a negrito strain in the aboriginal population of India has been suspected for a long time, but any definite evidence as to its existence has been lacking so far. Thus in the opinion of the Sarasin Brothers “no one has yet succeeded in finding pure woolly hair in India” (Ergebnisse naturwissenschaftlichen Forschungen auf Ceylon, 3, 355; 1893), a view which has also received the support of Turner (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 40, 114; 1905), Lapicque (Revue Scientifique, 6, July 1906), Thurston (“Tribes and Castes of Southern India,” vol. 1, Introduction, 1909), and Risley (“The Peoples of India,” p. 15, 1915).
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GUHA, B. Negrito Racial Strain in India. Nature 121, 793 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121793a0
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