Australoids
"Australoids" in a Sentence (9 examples)
Mixing amongst the human subspecies Mongoloids, Caucasoids, Negroids, and Australoids is quite common.
Though both Australoids, the Veddoids of India and the Aborigines of Australia do have physical dissimilarities. The Australian Aborigines can have black, brown, red, or yellow hair.
Anthropologists opine that the origin of the Australoids is not Australia, but Africa.
East Indians are mostly a mixture of Veddoid Australoids and Caucasoids.
There is an anthropological theory that early Australoids arrived in the Americas before the Mongoloids, many thousands of years ago.
Southern Mongoloids or Sundadonts have infusions of Australoids.
"Pre-Siberian American Aborigines," who were Australoids, are theorized to have migrated into the Americas thousands of years before the first Mongoloids, Amerindians, arrived from Asia.
As a society, there are really three blending elements in the Philippines: the Sundadonts, the Sinodonts, and the Caucasoids. My family is such a blend. Mongoloids really comprise three variants: the Sundadonts, the Sinodonts, and the Super-Sinodonts, these respectively being the Pacific Islanders, the East Asians, and the Amerindians of the Americas. The Filipino Caucasoid element is commonly Mediterranean. There are four human subspecies in my preferred model of anthropology: the Mongoloids, the Caucasoids, the Negroids, and the Australoids. Caucasoid has variants Nordic and Mediterranean; Negroid has variants Congoid and Capoid; and Australoid has variants Veddoid, Negrito, Papuan, Melanesian, and Aborigine. Migrants into the Philippines might have carried various bits of other strains. For example, Super-Sinodonts, Amerindians, might have reached the Philippines with the Manila-Acapulco Galleons during the Spanish Empire.
The Austronesian ("South Islands") language family, to which Tagalog and Hawaiian belong, originated in Taiwan. The Aeta are AustralOIDS, related to Papuans and Australian Aborigines. The frequent "Austra-" prefix may confuse some Anglophones. The Austronesians are Mongoloids with admixture of Australoids. The Aeta can have non-black hair as do Australian Aborigines.
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