     the negrito () are several ethnic groups of the australoid race who inhabit isolated parts of southeast asia.snow, philip. the star raft: china's encounter with africa. cornell univ. press, 1989 (isbn 0801495830) their current populations include 12 andamanese peoples of the andaman islands, six semang peoples of malaysia, the mani of thailand, and the aeta, agta, ati, and 30 other peoples of the philippines. genetically, negritos are the most distant human population from africans at most loci studied thus far (except for mc1r, which codes for dark skin). they have also been shown to have separated early from other asians, suggesting that they are either surviving descendants of settlers from an early migration out of africa, commonly referred to as the proto-australoids or negroids, or that they are descendants of one of the founder populations of modern humans. ==etymology==  the word "negrito" is the spanish diminutive of negro, i.e., "little black person", referring to their small stature, and was coined by early european explorers.{{cite book|author=william marsden|chapter=on the polynesian, or ea
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