Mr Joao Barros-Pereira writes:"...As is well known, Alexander the Great visited India 2500 years ago and some of his soldiers married local women and settled down in the Punjab. Much later, people of mixed heritage were born in British India and Portuguese Goa, some of whom have a fair complexion although they are less visible nowadays."
The map of Human Migration presented by the National Geographic, helps us get a good understanding of the journeys that got us where we are today. https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/ Some excerpts from this write up:"Our species is an African one: Africa is where we first evolved, and where we have spent the majority of our time on Earth. The earliest fossils of recognizably modern Homo sapiens appear in the fossil record at Omo Kibish in Ethiopia, around 200,000 years ago."" The earliest people to colonize the Eurasian landmass likely did so across the Bab-al-Mandab Strait separating present-day Yemen from Djibouti. These early beachcombers expanded rapidly along the coast to India, and reached Southeast Asia and Australia by 50,000 years ago. The first great foray of our species beyond Africa had led us all the way across the globe.""The rise of agriculture around 10,000 years ago—and the population explosion it created—has left a dramatic impact on the human gene pool. The rise of empires, the astounding oceangoing voyages of the Polynesians, even the extraordinary increase in global migration over the past 500 years could all leave traces in our DNA. There are many human journey questions waiting to be asked and answered." Best Regards, E. DeSousa
