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An aborigine is literally a person who is one of the original people of an area. The term has come to be applied nearly exclusively to the Australian Aborigines. The Australian Aborigines are quite distinct from Africans, though their ultimate roots, hundreds of thousands of years ago, may have been in Africa, just as the ancestors of all people may have been in Africa.

Analysis of mitochondrial DNA testing, indicates that the Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders originated from the Indian subcontinent.

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