Australoid

For the ethnic description of the indigenous peoples of Australia see Australian Aboriginal.

Truganini, the last aboriginal of Tasmania.

Australoid types.

Australoid (also referred to as Australomelanesoid, Australasian or Australomelanesian) is a term that would describe a human race according to the definition of Thomas Huxley of 1870, originally used to designate the indigenous peoples of Australia, Melanesia and populations of southern India. Others included them within the Negroids. Its use has fallen into disuse with the advent of human genetics and new anthropological currents.

Australoids were mainly considered to be Australian aborigines, Melanesians, and Vedoids. Certain authors also included, with some controversy, the Dravidians, Sinhalese and Negritos. It constitutes a human group that is believed to be the first to be separated from the rest, possessing characteristics such as a marked browbone, the color of the skin ranges from brown to black and its hair is curly but without becoming frizzy as it happens. in the negroid type, being also black in color although observing the peculiarity that they often have hair of a varied blonde color, especially in children and some adolescents.

However, there is now a broad scientific consensus that there are no human races in a biological sense and that the concept of distinct races is rooted in sociopolitical and historical processes rather than empirical observation.

Races do not exist, biologically or scientifically. Men by their common origin belong to the same genetic repertoire. The variations we can see are not the result of different genes. If "races" were to be treated, there is only one "race": the human.

José Marín Gonzáles

Peoples considered within this category

• Australian Aboriginal
• Veddas
• Melanes