Y-chromosome
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The first ancient DNA from R1a1a-Z93 6,000 years ago in Ukraine (with lactase persistence!)
Quoting a new David Anthony paper, the author highlights a 6,000-year-old Ukrainian sample with Y-haplogroup R1a-Z93 and early lactase persistence, notes the lineage’s links to South Asian Indo-Aryans, and expects…
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Genetic change, cultural coherency, and social structure
The author rejects a commenter’s claim that high R1a frequency in South Asia reflects non-paternity events, citing jati endogamy and uniform autosomal ancestry, and compares the Hui, whose Y chromosomes…
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What The All-Father Means
The author explains his joke about being a scion of the All-Father: the R1a1a Y-chromosome lineage spread across Eurasia and South Asia, and star phylogenies from whole-genome data suggest a…
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The Syeds of South Asia are the sons of Hindus and Magians
The author reviews a 2010 Y-chromosome paper on self-identified Syeds and says its data show Arab affinity, but argues he reads them differently, noting how many Syeds carry South Asian…
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South Asian Y chromosomes in Southeast Asia
Look at the R and H frequencies. Peach and violet respectively. Compare to South Asian haplogroup frequencies.
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The Munda as upland rice cultivators
Reading a history of Vietnam, the author, a geneticist, argues the Munda are not South Asia’s aboriginals but descend from male-mediated Austro-Asiatic migration, probably between 2000 and 1000 BCE, and…
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Why I don’t accept the para-Munda hypothesis
The author rejects Michael Witzel’s idea that a Munda-like language dominated the Indus and Gangetic plains, arguing from language, Y-chromosome and ancient DNA that the Munda arrived from Southeast Asia…
