China is NOT our pal

[DanaC]

as a side note: it is apparently a commonly held notion in China (even amongst the archeological community until very recently) that they are not descended from the same line of humans as everyone else. They, it is believed, did not descend from African modern man, but from an entirely separate line originating elsehwhere and evolving separately and independantly. They literally believe they are a different sub species of man from the rest of us.

It's bollocks, as it happens. But it wasn't until gene mapping that this was able to be proved, and the new evidence is apparently still not accepted by some.