Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

A large proportion of East Asian people carry unique versions of the lactase gene that enables humans to digest the sugars in ...

Tianyuan Man, from near present-day Beijing, and Hòabìnhian people, from present-day Laos and Malaysia, represent two very old lineages that are distinct from today’s East Asians.

Genetic differentiation between East Asians and Europeans at the 2q21.3 locus. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2404393122 ...

"East Asian and South Asian people are not being harassed and killed," @tedandrew2 wrote on Twitter, comparing the struggles of Asian Americans to black Americans.

As a scholar of East Asian Buddhism who studies how and why deities transform over time, I see the Laughing Buddha as a key figure that shows how people have adapted Buddhism to different cultural ...

David says that when people in the United States talk about Asian-Americans, they're almost always referring to people of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean descent. But today, those groups only make up ...

A listener asks: Should light-skinned Asian-Americans — like some East Asians — be able to call themselves "brown"? The answer is complicated, and has to do with how diverse "Asian-Americans" are.

In America, the situation is just the opposite: say Asian and people assume ‘east Asian.’ When people mean ‘south Asian,’ they’ll probably say Indian or maybe South Asian.” ...