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truespeed
Are the Chinese taught (in schools) that they evolved differently from the rest of us?

There was a programme of BBC2 the other week called the incredible human journey... SEE HERE (if you live in the UK).

Quote:
There are seven billion humans on earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo sapiens came to dominate the planet.

In this programme, the journey continues into Asia, the world's greatest land mass, in a quest to discover how early hunter-gatherers managed to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on earth - the Arctic region of Northern Siberia. Alice meets the nomadic Evenki people, whose lives are dictated by reindeer, both wild and domesticated, and discovers that the survival techniques of this very ancient people have been passed down through generations. Alice also explores what may have occurred during human migration to produce Chinese physical characteristics, and considers a controversial claim about Chinese evolution: that the Chinese do not share the same African ancestry as other peoples.


Source: BBC



They were asking questions like why the chinese look so different to europeans and africans,and the up shot of this,and what i find hard to believe,is that the chinese are taught (apparently) that they evolved differently to everyone else,it was later proved wrong by a chinese geneticist,but are the Chinese really taught that the opposite is true?
Kopernikus
Not only the chinese... Twisted Evil

The recently dominant theory of human development is the "Out of Africa" hypothesis, meaning, that different hominids did evolve in Africa and colonized the rest of the world in waves.

There are competing theories, claiming that after homo erectus, i think, humankind was differentiating in some parts of the world. Homo neanderthalensis is seen as this kind of special branch. If these local variations were reabsorbed in the human gene pool or not, is still under question...
ocalhoun
Kopernikus wrote:
If these local variations were reabsorbed in the human gene pool or not, is still under question...


Actually, yes it could be true then. The more advanced 'humans' out of Africa could have interbred with others not from Africa, causing a blended race of what we know know as humans, or at least a different race of humans.

We could look at it more objectively with a less close-to-home example. Most modern horses are descended from three main branches, or a mix of them. There were very large, draft-like horses in Europe (extinct now, except in modified form such as Percherons and Clydesdales ), smaller draft-pony like horses in East Asia (very endangered), and medium-sized fast and sleek ones from the Middle East (extinct, except for in the modified form of the Arabian breed).
After they've been interbred so much now, crossing desirable traits from one strain to another, you can't really talk of most horses having originated from any of these three places.
But, all of them did originate from a common ancestor from the North American continent, which crossed over to Asia during an ice age, and became extinct in the Americas.

So, perhaps we can think of human development in a similar way. Suppose that our ancestors originally came out of Africa, then split into several groups, which went to different places and evolved different traits. They then intermingled, though, which may have caused a transition from not-quite-human to what we know of today as humans. This intermingling may still be going on, as barriers to travel are broken down.
deanhills
ocalhoun wrote:
So, perhaps we can think of human development in a similar way. Suppose that our ancestors originally came out of Africa, then split into several groups, which went to different places and evolved different traits. They then intermingled, though, which may have caused a transition from not-quite-human to what we know of today as humans. This intermingling may still be going on, as barriers to travel are broken down.
Would you then say that those who are presently from Africa (left behind) are less advanced, or are they not the same Africans who "intermingled" when the transitions were taking place? I.e. all present-day Africans in Africa are "intermingled"?

Back to the topic of the thread, does it imply that those who are from China are more advanced or "more different" from other humans of the rest of the world?

PS: I could not view the show from where I am, but Googled it at this shortcut:
http://www.incrediblehumanjourney.com/?cat=5
Quote:
Alice explores what may have occurred during human migration to change Chinese physical characteristics, and considers the startling possibility that the Chinese are descended from an entirely different branch of humans to the rest of the world.

ocalhoun
deanhills wrote:
ocalhoun wrote:
So, perhaps we can think of human development in a similar way. Suppose that our ancestors originally came out of Africa, then split into several groups, which went to different places and evolved different traits. They then intermingled, though, which may have caused a transition from not-quite-human to what we know of today as humans. This intermingling may still be going on, as barriers to travel are broken down.
Would you then say that those who are presently from Africa (left behind) are less advanced, or are they not the same Africans who "intermingled" when the transitions were taking place? I.e. all present-day Africans in Africa are "intermingled"?

Not less advanced, because neither group ever ceased advancing. They could (and obviously did, to some extent) advance in a somewhat different direction.
hangnhu
why would they be different from the rest of us?
babygeek
1st time hearing this. spent a great deal of time in asia. I dont think the chinese are taught as if they are any 'different' (and/or superior like how the japanese were said to have believed). i think the chinese are usually too busy doing business and work to ponder on life-qns like this...Wink
Kopernikus
deanhills wrote:
ocalhoun wrote:
So, perhaps we can think of human development in a similar way. Suppose that our ancestors originally came out of Africa, then split into several groups, which went to different places and evolved different traits. They then intermingled, though, which may have caused a transition from not-quite-human to what we know of today as humans. This intermingling may still be going on, as barriers to travel are broken down.
Would you then say that those who are presently from Africa (left behind) are less advanced, or are they not the same Africans who "intermingled" when the transitions were taking place? I.e. all present-day Africans in Africa are "intermingled"?

Back to the topic of the thread, does it imply that those who are from China are more advanced or "more different" from other humans of the rest of the world?

PS: I could not view the show from where I am, but Googled it at this shortcut:
http://www.incrediblehumanjourney.com/?cat=5
Quote:
Alice explores what may have occurred during human migration to change Chinese physical characteristics, and considers the startling possibility that the Chinese are descended from an entirely different branch of humans to the rest of the world.



actually I think, that in terms of genetic age, the african people are the youngest, but correct me if I am wrong...
wanshi
every kind of people is different,but as human beings ,we chinese are not different from others.
spring567
babygeek wrote:
1st time hearing this. spent a great deal of time in asia. I dont think the chinese are taught as if they are any 'different' (and/or superior like how the japanese were said to have believed). i think the chinese are usually too busy doing business and work to ponder on life-qns like this...Wink


It's true.
Betboy
Surprised it's it right???may be we should take into account something
todabeat
i heard of this study.

but wasnt it beeing done by National geographic?
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