HUGO study reveals India as the source of Asian genetic diversity, Aryan invasion theory falls flat

[gwinna]

A study done by a consortium of geneticists from 10 Asian countries shows that Indian genetic diversity is the basis of other population in Asia. It says that over 50,000 years ago there was a first single stream entry of humans into India from Africa. From India the human population settled in South-East Asia and from there some of then moved to

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[sollersuk]

The "age old belief" you mention is a new one to me. The version I was taught is that the Aryans went into India at a comparatively late stage from the Middle East and then intermarried with the peoples they found there (eg those of the Indus Valley civilisation).

There were apparently peoples of European descent in Central Asia, but they seem to have gone there comparatively late as well, but they didn't go anywhere else from there.

[cooperati]

"The study tends to refute the age old belief that Aryans as a distinct race who migrated from Central Asia and settled in the plains of north India