Where Indians Come From?

Despite the considerable antiquity of Indian civilization, with some sites in what is today northwest India and Pakistan dating from over five thousand years ago, the origins of today’s Indians have long been shrouded by the depths of time, a murky morass for archaeologists and historians. However, 2018 was rightly described as the golden age of Indian population genetics, because DNA evidence, modern and ancient, combined with archaeology and linguistics, has finally unraveled the origins of Indians. We now have a good idea of where Indians come from, after decades of mystery. What has emerged is a picture of Indian origins that aptly reflects the present diversity of South Asia. Indians — their civilization, language, and religion — are the multilayered, composite product of many different sources, now mixed to produce the modern population. Origins Aboriginal Indians. A significant portion of Indian DNA, almost half by some accounts, is derived from the aboriginal inhabitants of India, possibly descendants from the human populations that arrived there in the first waves of migration out of Africa by 50,000 years ago; in present-day India, the tribes of the Andaman islands, with a physiological profile most similar to modern Australian aborigines and New Guineans, are the taken to be the most representative of this ancient population, which has been labeled by geneticists as Ancient Ancestral South Indians (AASI), somewhat of a misnomer since this population is a major component of the DNA of all South Asians. AASI DNA is particularly prominent in mitochondrial DNA (passed through the female line), indicating that there was consistent selective mixing between aboriginal women and high-status males from populations from outside of India, probably buoyed by innovative technologies such as agriculture and metallurgy. #populations #origin #Indians #Dna #HumanMigration #Migrations #SouthAsia #CentralAsia #India #Aryans #Europe #EuropeanSteppes #Iranians #Agriculturists #Pastoralists #NikolaysGeneticsLessons #thinkbangla #thinkenglish #bonyaAhmed #imtiazShams #dravidians #northSouthIndia #AncientDNA #AryanInvasionIndia #historyOfIndia #indiaDocumentary #ancientIndia #indusValleyCivilization #AryanMigrationTheory #AryanInvasionTheory #indoaryan #indiaArcheology #migrationTheory