Write a brief note on the Australoids.
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The Australoid race is a racial classification used to refer to aboriginal people of Australia, Melanesia, as well as parts of Southeast Asia. Historical anthropologist suggested some Australoid tribes in India, but new studies show that there is no Australoid ancestry in India
In physical anthropology, forensic anthropology and archaeogenetics, Australo-Melanesians (also Australasian, Australomelanesoid or Australoid)form a large group of populations indigenous to Maritime Southeast Asia and Oceania.
The group includes Papuans, Aboriginal Australians, Melanesians (mainly from Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu) and the populations grouped as "Negrito" (the Andamanese, the Semang and Batek peoples, the Maniq people, the Aeta people, the Ati people, and certain other ethnic groups in the Philippines).
The Vedda people in Sri Lanka and a number of dark-skinned tribal populations in the interior of the Indian subcontinent (mainly Dravidian-speaking groups and some Austroasiatic-speaking peoples, like the Munda people) are also suggested by some to belong to the Australo-Melanesian group,but there are controversies about this inclusion
The term australoid belongs to a set of terms introduced by 19th-century anthropologists attempting to categorize human races. Some claim such terms are associated with outdated notions of racial types, and so are now potentially offensive.
Most of us are mix of Caucasians and australaisians