Asian

The native peoples and inhabitants of the continent of Asia, which is the contiguous land mass east of the Ural Mountains, the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia. The region is culturally heterogenous with numerous distinctive ethnic and sociolinguistic groups, totalling over half the Earth's human population (including China, India, and Japan). The American Indians were Asian migrants to the New World during the last Ice Age.

Origins In September 1998 Chinese geneticists reported that a genetic analysis of DNA from 43 different ethnic groups in China and Asia indicates that the first modern humans arrived in China about 60,000 years ago. The findings support the theory that humans migrated out of East Africa around 100,000 years ago moving from the Middle East through Pakistan and India along the Indian Ocean coastline and then into China and eventually into North America. The report also challenges the view of many Chinese palaeontologists that an East Asian branch of Homo erectus evolved independently into H. sapiens.