Early anthropologists placed Aboriginal Australians within the obsolete "Caucasian" race in hierarchies that ranked Europeans above them. Genomics links their ancestors to the shared out-of-Africa migration around 60,000–70,000 years ago; they reached Sahul roughly 50,000–65,000 years ago. Aboriginal and Papuan ancestors form the earliest-diverging branch among living non-Africans.
Some anthropologists classed Aboriginal Australians as "Caucasian" in a flawed hierarchy
Key facts
- Some early anthropologists and racial theorists placed Aboriginal Australians within the obsolete Caucasian race, treating them as an archaic branch in hierarchies that ranked Europeans above them.
- Genomic studies trace all present-day non-African populations to a shared out-of-Africa migration around 60,000–70,000 years ago.
- Aboriginal ancestors reached Sahul roughly 50,000–65,000 years ago, when lower sea levels exposed the route from Southeast Asia.
- The first split among living non-African lineages separated Papuan–Aboriginal ancestors from the lineage ancestral to East Asians and West Eurasians; genetics does not show Aboriginal Australians descending from a separate Caucasian group.
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