Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study

[Liffrea]

HYDERABAD: The great Indian divide along north-south lines now stands blurred. A pathbreaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers onancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship between all Indians and more importantly, the hitherto believed ``fact'' that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might after all, be a myth.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Aryan-Dravidian-divide-a-myth-Study/articleshow/5053274.cms

[Lenny]

From what I can gather, it seems that these geneticists and newspapermen are just pummeling a helpless little strawman. Namely, the idea that people supposedly believed that North-Indians and South-Indians were as unrelated as Northern-Africans and Southern-Africans. Of course they heavily overlap. Of course. Nevertheless, it is clear that Veddoid blood (http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/gloss2.htm#VEDDID) is far greater in the south and less present in the north. Conversely, the European-looking ancestrally-Hindu individuals (http://www.theapricity.com/snpa/gloss2.htm#NORTH-INDID) in India are all to be found in the north.

(Sometimes I feel that this genetics stuff is like the old cynicism about statistics. Slick salesman can use it to 'prove' anything. "There's no difference between North and South Indians". Really? But the above two facts are easily observable...).


Between 135,000 and 75,000 years ago, the East-African droughts shrunk the water volume of the lake Malawi by at least 95%, causing migration out of Africa.They state that with such an air of assurance, it's as if they were writing "Vicksburg fell in early July 1863, causing the end of cooperation between the eastern and western CSA states." This is reckless because there is no way to know that this is what happened. Out of Africa is a theory with all sorts of holes, and is almost certainly not true. Yet it's now a quasi-dogma.


Which route did they take? Researchers say their study of the tribes of Andaman and Nicobar islands using complete mitochondrial DNA sequences and its comparison those of world populations has led to the theory of a ``southern coastal route'' of migration from East Africa through India.

This finding is against the prevailing view of a northern route of migration via Middle East, Europe, south-east Asia, Australia and then to India.
Anthropologically, Andaman Islanders are less progressive than the posited Basic Homosapiens stock. So the premise is already refuted. Unless we want to say that Andaman Islanders de-evolved rapidly in the past 50,000 years.