8 Mind Blowing Facts About The Human Race

6. There Is A Theory That The Chinese Are A Different Species

So, we've just said that every non-African in the world is descended from a handful of ancient Africans, but not everyone agrees with this hypothesis.

There is a growing movement in Chinese anthropology that suggests that the Chinese people are descended from a different branch of homo erectus that made it out of Africa long before homo sapiens were on the scene. This is part of the rationale as to why the typical Chinese features are so drastically different from typical black African features. Some also think that the theory is supported by the fact that many ancient tools found by archaeologists in China are extremely primitive compared to homo sapien finds, suggesting that they couldn't possibly have been produced by the advanced toolmakers.

Although many are convinced of this theory, every genetic sampling experiment so far has produced a result consistent with the Chinese being descended from the same line as the rest of us, and some even theorise that the lack of stone tools could be due to the primitive Chinese humans making their tools out of the abundant bamboo in the region instead.