[blam]

"The Australian aborigines are Caucasoid are they not?"

I don't know.

James Chatters in his book, Ancient Encounters, says that he thinks that an ancient group of people traveled across the Asian steppes from Europe (evolving as they went over thousands of years) into Asia and it was this group (Kennewick Man like people) who evolved into the Asians, Jomons, Polinesians(sp) and then streamed back and also became the Caucasians of Europe.

[RightWhale]

Another small thing is the origin of the word aborigines. Rather than meaning original, it could mean 'from the mountains' or 'beyond the mountains.' If so the term would have the same origin as oriental, which means from the mountains or in the mountains. The mountains of Turkey, by the way, which was once considered the Orient. From Greek, oros, mountain. The word origin is derived from the Latin origo, rise, which would have a similar meaning as mountain, which is related to montere, to climb. The famous formula y = mx + b also contains the m which is short for French monter, to climb, thanks to Descartes.