Is Australoid a Race?

Australo-Melanesians (also known as Australasians or Australomelanesoid race or Australoid race) is an outdated historical grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia. Groups that were controversially included are found in parts of Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

What are the major races?

The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962.

Is Melanesians a Mongoloid?

Australians and Melanesians are always more closely related to each other than either is to Southern Mongoloids; b. Oceanic Mongoloids (Micronesians, Polynesians) group most closely with Southern Mongoloids in Island Southeast Asia (see Hill and Serjeantson 1989);