Category Archives: Indo-Aryans

If Dr. Alexander Semenenko’s analysis is right and damn seems so, this might be another foundation ripped from Aryan Migration or Invasion Theory. @themerumedia @brownpundits @omarali50 @TheEmissaryCo @razibkhan @kushal_mehra @thapli64 https://t.co/TCctzkcWNe — Mukunda Raghavan (@raghman36) June 30, 2020 Readers know I do not like to watch YouTubes, but Mukunda is a member in-good-standing of the …

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A reader sent me a post they wrote, The Aryans were Invasive to India: The Aryan Migration into India was invasive; characterized by violent conquest, rape, racism, and religious supremacy. This was not a unique phenomenon in the premodern era, but a relatively standard episode that would ensue when two different tribes had to struggle …

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Since Who We Are and How We Got Here is out I thought I would spoil the “India chapter” (though you should buy the book!). – The “Ancestral North Indians” are best modeled as a 50/50 ratio of Yamna-type people from the steppes & “Iranian farmers.” The implication is that the Indo-Aryans mixed with agriculturalists … Continue reading “The Indian chapter of Who We Are and How We Got Here

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Estimating a date of mixture of ancestral South Asian populations: Linguistic and genetic studies have shown that most Indian groups have ancestry from two genetically divergent populations, Ancestral North Indians (ANI) and Ancestral South Indians (ASI). However, the date of mixture still remains unknown. We analyze genome-wide data from about 60 South Asian groups using […]

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I mentioned a few days ago that a friend was trying to get together some data to analyze the genetic variation of South Asians. By a strange coincidence Dienekes just published a more detailed analysis of South Asians…and uncovered something very interesting, though not that surprising. Some technical preliminaries: A note of caution: The reduced […]

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