Christopher J. Bae

For a long time, people thought that, uh, Eastern Asia was only peopled about one million years ago, and then slowly but surely, it's getting pushed back in time.

So that's Christopher Bae.

He's a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and he specializes in the anthropology of Eastern Asia, having worked in places like Korea, China, and Japan for the last 30 years.

And so the, the earliest peopling of, uh, of Eastern Asia right now goes back to about 2.4 million years ago.