Why do Papuans/Melanesians look so similar to Black Africans?

Question

They often have their own distinct ethic look, true. However, some are just absolute dead ringers for the Bantu racial type in West Africa.

Answer 1

They belong to the same subspecies. The climate of the australoid
region is similar to that of sub-saharan africa, so the african type
proliferated in the area, even after the people had hybridized with
non-africans.

Of course, the leftists desire to suppress the fact that modern human
subspecies even exist. That behavior is caused by the desire to
disrupt the fundamental logical truth that different entities are not
necessarily equivalent. That desire is a mental focus of crude blind
seeping oneness. That desire is also the cause of political
far-leftism.

Answer 2

These peoples are actually closer related to human populations living outside of Africa: Australian aboriginies, Southeast Asians even Caucasians. Their resemblance to African Blacks is simply coincidental because they live in an environment which is climatologically and geographically similar to Africa.