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Full-blooded [[Ainu people|Ainu]] are mostly fair-skinned, with the men generally having dense hair development.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |first= Philippa |last= Fogarty|title= Recognition at last for Japan’s Ainu|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7437244.stm|work= [[BBC News]]|publisher= [[BBC]]|date= 2008-06-06|accessdate=2008-06-07 }}</ref> Many early investigators proposed a Caucasian ancestry, although recent [[Genealogical DNA test|DNA tests]] have found no traces of Caucasian ancestry.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005192/Ainu Ainu -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia]</ref> The Ainu are generally considered to be the [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous]] population of [[Japan]]. It is possible that [[North America]] had several peoples among its early settlers. The best-known evidence that may support this theory is probably [[Kennewick Man]]. Kennewick Man may not have been European but rather resembled [[Ainu people]] of northeast Asia.<ref>[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060425183740.htm Kennewick Man Skeletal Find May Revolutionalize Continent’s History], Science Daily</ref>
===Koreans===
"''Racial characteristics of... the Caucasians are found among the people of Korea<!--pg. 28--><ref name=Chung />.... Prof. A. H. Keane, a distinguished ethnologist of Great Britain, maintains that the Korean people were originally of Caucasian stock intermingled with the Mongolian race<!--pg. 28--><ref name=Chung />... [Kean is quoted as saying] In the adjacent Korean Peninsula the Caucasian element is even more marked than among the Tunguses.<!--pg. 28--><ref name=Chung /> European features-- light eyes, large nose, hair often brown, full beard, fair and even white skin, tall stature-- are conspicuous especially amongst the upper classes and in the south.''"<!--pg. 28--><ref name=Chung>Chung, Henry. <u>The Case of Korea.</u> Published by Fleming H. Revell company, 1921.</ref>
===Dauri===
"''In Manchuria, on the contrary, the Dauri, who live on the Amur, alongside the Manchus, have a strong intermixture of Caucasian blood;<ref name=Macmillan /><!--pg. 28--> they are tall, oval-faced, regular-featured, narrow-cheeked, large-nosed, and brown-haired.''" <ref name=Macmillan><!--pg. 28--> Brown, Macmillan John. <u>Maori and Polynesian</u> Published by Hutchinson & Co., 1907</ref>
==Physical characteristics==
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