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2026-05-08 08:07 UTC

Homo sapiens arrived first in the subcontinent about 65,000-50,000 years ago, and would have found the region already inhabited by other humans (likely Denisovan,who I would call human not simply hominin). ...Genetic scientists say that, today, almost all people in South Asia carry this ‘First South Asians’ ancestry in their genomes to varying degrees, with tribal groups possessing more of it than others. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00462-3

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@RadicalAnthro@c.im 2026-05-08 08:09

The Reich et al 2009 study, with a much more diverse sampling of population, 'showed that upper-caste groups shared greater genetic affinity with ‘West Eurasians’ (that is, ‘Europeans, central Asians, Near Easterners, and people of the Caucasus’, as Reich put it in his 2018 book) than did low-caste and tribal groups. The researchers coined new terms for early South Asian people who, in the abstract modelling involved in the study, were classified into two groups considered ancestral to all contemporary South Asians: Ancestral South Indians (ASI) and Ancestral North Indians (ANI).' Subsequent studies further elaborated how the ASI and ANI populations came to be formed, and how they were related to the Harappans and the Aryans. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2842210/

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