Proof: Ainu can never be Caucasian. Haplogroup D2 is related with Adamanese

[TheForeigner]

No one claims anymore Ainu are Caucasoid, but East Asian people genetically and otherwise and to me they don't look too Caucasoid or so ''un-Asian''.

[ButlerKing]

Jomons are now veddoids? I heard the same thing about depigmented Euros, lol.

Veddas have 0% Caucasian / European DNA.

They are isolated group of people. Their most closely related with people from South Indian aborigines.

[Ianus]

Ainu were paleomongoloid

[Smaug]

I like cookies.

[Grace O'Malley]

There is a connection between so many different groups of people in North Eastern Asia. The European, American Indians and Asians all have common heritage in the Siberian/Mongol area. If anyone has put their dna through Gedmatch you would know this.

[JeanBaMac]

Ainu are a Paleosiberian ethnic group, originate from the Amur Valley and the Kamchatka peninsula.

Haplogroup D is not confined to an ethnic group, it's common :
- in Southwestern China (among Tibetans and southwestern Sinitic tribes)
- in Japan (especially among Ainu and the ancient Jomon people)
- in the Andaman Islands.
This haplogroup is probably related to the Paleolithic populations of Asia and the Pacific Islands, which was progressively replaced by haplogroup O carriers.
So, the subclade of haplogroup D common among Japanese and Ainu can be considerated as a Siberian subclade.

According to Wikipedia, Jomon people (and Ainu) are also distant cousins of Australian Aborigines and Melanesians, they have Denisovan admixture (it's not without reason, since Denisovans lived for a long time in Siberia).

[Tatar]

Ainu were paleomongoloid

Proto-mongoloid
(paleomongoloid are more like austrolasian)

[Tatar]

I think you are right for the Ainu but Jomon have probably a southern origine closer to austrolasian.

[Mortimer]

mongoloids are cool, i like this thread.