DNA Study: Europeans Arrived Via India

[krsna]

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/13/science/13migrate.html

 

NEW YORK, USA, May 13, 2005: By studying the DNA of an ancient people

in Malaysia, a team of geneticists says it has illuminated many aspects

of how modern humans migrated from Africa. The geneticists say there

was only one migration of modern humans out of Africa; that it took a

southern route to India, southeast Asia and Australia; and that it

consisted of a single band of hunter-gatherers, probably just a few

hundred people strong. Because these events occurred in the last Ice

Age, when Europe was at first too cold for human habitation, the

researchers say, it was populated only later, not directly from Africa

but as an offshoot of the southern migration via India. The people of

this offshoot would presumably have trekked back through the lands that

are now India and Iran to reach the Near East and Europe.

 

The findings depend on analysis of mitochondrial DNA, a type of genetic

material inherited solely through the female line. They are reported

today in Science by a team of geneticists led by Dr. Vincent Macaulay

of the University of Glasgow. Everyone in the world can be placed on a

single family tree, in terms of their mitochondrial DNA, because

everyone has inherited that piece of DNA from a single woman, the

mitochondrial Eve, who lived some 200,000 years ago, states this

article. There were many other women in that ancient population. But

over the generations, one mitochondrial DNA replaced all the others

through the process known as genetic drift. With the help of mutations

that have built up on the one surviving copy, geneticists can arrange

people in lineages and estimate the time of origin of each lineage.

With this approach, Dr. Macaulay's team calculates that the emigration

from Africa occurred 65,000 years ago, pushed along the coasts of India

and southeast Asia and reached Australia by 50,000 years ago, the date

of the earliest known archaeological site there.

 

The Malaysian people whom the geneticists studied are the Orang Asli.

the term means "original men" in Malay. They are probably descended

from this first migration, because they have several ancient

mitochondrial DNA lineages that are found nowhere else, continues the

article. These lineages are 42,000 to 63,000 years old, the geneticists

say. For the full article, click on "source" above.

[Guest guest]

maybe Europeans arrived by travelling through India. Problem is, it doesn't do anything to dispel the Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory.

 

For one thing, it's possible Europeans migrated to India after migrating to Europe.

 

I don't believe in the theory, but this article does nothing to confirm or deny it.

[Guest guest]

was the one driving the aryan ksatriyas out of India. there is the source of the Europeans.

The Indus-valley civilisation was Aryan, witnedd the names of the cities.

Mohendrodaro means the city on the river dedicated to Indra. (daro - on the riverbank). Harappa is Hari-yupaya or the selfmanifest Hari. All those towns have sanskrit names - now from where did they come? the people living there came from their mother's belly, who was living there always, as her family did, from time immemorial.

there was never a aryan invasion, for there is outside India no such culture to be found anywhere.

VdK.

VdK.