Are Africans and Australian aborigines of the same race?

These Aboriginal ancestors migrated into South Asia and then into Australia, where they stayed, with the result that, outside of Africa, the Aboriginal peoples have occupied the same territory continuously longer than any other human populations. read more

Nope! They have nothing in common including body shape & skin color. The Australian Aborigine is closer to Caucasians, the same as Indians, though officially they are grouped as Australoid. read more

Many African groups, of the ‘Negroid’ racial type, migrated around Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia, the Australian Aborigine being perhaps the first of this wave of adventurous traders. read more

Aboriginal people are sometimes called Australoid race. They are not related in any way to Africans, Asians or Polynesians, and are most genetically similar to Caucasians as far as 'race' goes. When the first people left Africa, those that would become Aboriginal people headed east and those that would become Caucasian people headed west. read more