What is Peopling of China?

In the course of the peopling of the World by Homo sapiens, East Asia was reached before about 50,000 years ago. The undifferentiated "non-African" of 70 kya diverged into identifiable East Asian and West Eurasian lineages by about 50 kya. This early East Asian lineage diverged further during the Last Glacial Maximum, contributing significantly to the peopling of the Americas via Beringia after about 25 kya. After the last ice age China became cut off from neighboring island groups. The modern Mongoloid phenotype developed fully only during the Neolithic period.