"There are black Negroes in this island who pay tribute to no one." -Early Spanish historian
Although the great majority of the people of the Philippines are Tagalog, the country is not ethnically homogeneous. In spite of their small numbers the original inhabitants of the Philippines are the Agta (diminutive Africoids), who still live there in some numbers and are commonly and pejoratively called Pygmies, Negritos and Aeta, and a variety of other names based upon their specific locale. In regards to phenotype, broadly speaking, the Agta can be described as physically small and unusually short in stature, dark-skinned, spiral-haired and broad-nosed. They are an extremely ancient people and, I believe, close representatives of the world's earliest modern humans.
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Although negritos do bear a strong surface resemblance:
"They are the most genetically distant human population from Africans at most loci studied thus far (except for MC1R, which codes for dark skin)."
But who really knows yet?
"genetically distant human population from Africans"
Who said anything about Africans?
This post is about the indigenous black people of the planet earth.
The indigenous black people of Africa, of Australia, of Europe, of The Philippines of Asia and the original black indigenous people of North and South America...
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