3 strands of ancestry
Genetics has drawn a serviceable outline for the epic of our origins. for other disciplines to fill in the relevant gaps
Just nine years ago, a paper in the journal Nature, 'Reconstructing Indian Population History', revolutionised the genetic understanding of the origins of the peoples of India.
Examining patterns across the whole genome, the authors argued that modern Indians are a mix of two groups, one very much like Europeans, Ancestral North Indians (ANI), and another distantly related to today's tribes of the Andaman Islands, Ancestral South Indians (ASI).
The paper sketched a
