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Ranganathan Samuel's avatar

Based on what I’ve read before, you believe Y-DNA H in India is associated with the Iranian agriculturalists, correct?

Do you think it could possibly be AASI instead, and what makes you lean towards one belief over the other?

Razib Khan's avatar

20% is R1a, so that's steppe

as for the rest, perhaps H is AASI, but C definitely is (found in patels)

Jay A.'s avatar

What is the chart implying about the migration path of R1b1a1a2? Did it reach Western Europe via North Africa?

Razib Khan's avatar

E Europe to west

Robert Hartmann's avatar

I think nobody knows the number of T. Am I wrong?

Daya's avatar

The Lake Chad results are fascinating. On reading the abstract of the paper you have linked here, the dates for the Eurasian migration into Central Africa seem quite broad - 5500 BC to 2700 BC. Why is that ?

Were they Indo-Europeans ? Is there a lost African branch of the Indo-Europeans?

Razib Khan's avatar

probably lost, yes

David's avatar

The numbers in the table don't add up to anywhere near 4 billion?

Razib Khan's avatar

there are lots of haplogroups i left off. i couldn't find any table with absolute numbers so had to calculate myself...and just stopped at 11. time

Bryan L's avatar

I was surprised to see that Japan is so widely separated from China on the haplogroup tree. What are it's haplogroup neighbors and what does that say about the origins of the Japanese people?

Razib Khan's avatar

D is from the jomon.