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THE Veddoids of southern India have many physical features in common with the Australian aboriginals, and the Indian anthropologist, Dr. B. S. Guha, has actually suggested that the term ‘Veddoid’ or ‘Veddian’ should be replaced by the word ‘Proto-Australoid’1. Whether the Veddoid element is equally strong in all Australian aboriginals is not certain. Birdsell2divides the Australian aboriginals into three groups; that in the Northern Territories is considered to have more Veddoid connexions than the other two, which are more intimately related to Negritos and Europoid Ainus respectively.
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HORSFALL, W., LEHMANN, H. Absence of the Sickle Cell Trait in Seventy-two Australian Aboriginals. Nature 172, 638 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172638a0
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