re: #18 austin_blue

Pedant that I am, I will also point out that the people in the southern islands, like Okinawa, would think of themselves as a separate people.

We humans have be traveling around the world with our upright, efficient-gait, posture for a very long time. We don’t know how many different groups have inhabited the Japan, for example, but there have been several.

BTW, for today’s DNA Day celebration at Harvard, German scientist Savante Paabo, the guy leading the group who have done so much on Neanderthal and Denisova DNA, was talking about experimenting on chimpanzees, and maybe giving them our version of the FOXP2 gene.

PLANET OF THE APES!!