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East Asia

About: East Asia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17591 publications have been published within this topic receiving 274073 citations. The topic is also known as: Eastern Asia.


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TL;DR: Genetic studies using autosomal, mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome markers all point to an African ancestor of East Asians, and a survey of more than 1,000 East Asian Y chromosomes shows no local contribution, making the multiregional hypothesis very unlikely.
Abstract: East Asia is one of the few regions in the world where a relatively large number of human fossils have been unearthed--a discovery that has been taken as evidence for an independent local origin of modern humans outside of Africa. However, genetic studies conducted in the past ten years, especially using Y chromosomes, have provided unequivocal evidence for an African origin of East Asian populations. The genetic signatures present in diverse East Asian populations mark the footsteps of prehistoric migrations that occurred tens of thousands of years ago.

228 citations

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TL;DR: This article argued that a burgeoning China poses a long-term danger to Asia-Pacific security for two reasons: first, despite Japan's present economic strength, a future Chinese hegemony in East Asia is a strong possibility, while Japan's inherent weaknesses create doubts about the ability of the Japanese to increase or sustain.
Abstract: I Northeast Asia has been relatively peaceful for the past forty years. The post-Cold War era, however, will bring new security challenges to the Asia-Pacific region. Perhaps the most serious of these challenges involves China’s expected emergence as a major economic power in the near future. While a developed, prosperous Chinese economy offers the region many potential benefits, it would also give China the capability to challenge Japan for domination of East Asia. China’s recent economic growth signals a change in East Asia’s distribution of power and draws renewed attention to Chinese foreign policy. What are the consequences of Chinese economic growth for regional security?’ I argue that a burgeoning China poses a long-term danger to Asia-Pacific security for two reasons. First, despite Japan’s present economic strength, a future Chinese hegemony in East Asia is a strong possibility. China is just beginning to realize its vast economic potential, while Japan’s inherent weaknesses create doubts about the ability of the Japanese to increase or sustain

226 citations

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01 Sep 1981-Nature
TL;DR: Palaeomagnetic results from the Permian of the Sino-Korean and Yangtze blocks of China as mentioned in this paper show they were also situated near the Equator, were not in their present relationship to one another and were widely separated from Siberia.
Abstract: Asia is a composite continent formed by the accretion of crustal blocks1–3. A likely sequence of events is that Siberia collided with a Kazakhstan block which together then collided with Europe along the Urals in Permo-Triassic times2. This was followed by the sucessive accretion of various blocks of south and east Asia to Siberia, culminating in the collision of India with Asia during the Cenozoic. Palaeomagnetic data have already demonstrated that the Kolyma and Sikhote Alin blocks of eastern Asia collided with the main continent along the late Mesozoic fold belts of Verkhoyansk and Sikhote Alin4. Furthermore, results from the Malay peninsula5 and Japan6 suggest that South-east Asia and Japan were situated near the Equator in Permian times and were therefore separated from the Asian continent. We report here some palaeomagnetic results from the Permian of the Sino-Korean and Yangtze blocks of China that show they were also situated near the Equator, were not in their present relationship to one another and were widely separated from Siberia.

226 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20242
2023609
20221,266
2021377
2020478
2019465