Also gives some credence to the Garden of Eden being in that area. On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 7:22:47 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > In fact, several experts, such as Lluís Quintana-Murci,20 Vincent > Macaulay,21 Stephen Oppenheimer,22 Michael Petraglia,23 and their > associates, have in the last few years proposed that when Homo sapiens > migrated out of Africa, he first reached South-West Asia around 75,000 BP, > and from here, went on to other parts of the world. In simple terms, except > for Africans, all humans have ancestors in the North-West of the Indian > peninsula. In particular, one migration started around 50,000 BP towards > the Middle East and Western Europe: > > “indeed, nearly all Europeans — and by extension, many Americans — can > trace their ancestors to only four mtDNA lines, which appeared between > 10,000 and 50,000 years ago and originated from South Asia.” 24 India > acted “as an incubator of early genetic differentiation of modern humans > moving out of Africa.”26 > > There is some superb Indian work that denies the Aryan myth, which can't > be supported by genetics or archaeology Indian biologist, Sanghamitra > Sahoo, headed eleven colleagues, including T. Kivisild and V. K. Kashyap, > for a study of the Y-DNA of 936 samples covering 77 Indian populations, 32 > of them tribes.18 The authors left no room for doubt: > > “The sharing of some Y-chromosomal haplogroups between Indian and Central > Asian populations is most parsimoniously explained by a deep, common > ancestry between the two regions, with diffusion of some Indian- specific > lineages northward.” > > So the southward gene flow that had been imprinted on our minds for two > centuries was wrong, after all: the flow was out of, not into, India. The > authors continue: > ...
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