What a 3,800-Year-Old Tooth Reveals About Ancient Japanese

A genetic analysis of "Jomon woman" who lived about 3,800 years ago in Japan reveals she had a high tolerance for alcohol.

[entingkabesote]

Basically what makes Japanese is a mixture of jomon, ainu, yayoi and ryukyu people. That means Japan is actually diverse.

[DeLaCruzer]

The presenter's voice sounded nervous.

[hitkid]

Was reading about this earlier. Quite interesting.

[danielarola]

The Ainu people were indigenous inhabitants of Hokkaido in the north. The Jomon migrated up from the south. Basically.

[rexharrisen]

Very informative. Thank you. Rex Harrison. linked in. 😂

[Plague_Doc]

"so like..a super long period" how to sound the least scientific possible.

[crowman]

so people live around the ice shelf from the east to the west am Irish form the west coast
no mixing race just about 10, 000 year old dna would like to compare to the AINU people

[str]

I'm guessing Japanese populated by waves. 1st wave was likely eurasians, 2nd wave was mixed austronesian then last wave was east asian.

[Plague_Doc]

wet ear wax..thats interesting. Must've meant hte climate was very different. As its more common in areas where its colder like in Sweden where i am, where the vast majority of native sweds with generations living here having wet ear wax.

[missfeliss]

This girl reminds me of a young Natalie Portman...

[guleet]

Hold on 20% of Japanese people have wet air wax ! While it is extremely rare in Koreans !!