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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->... a <b>craniometric study by B. E. Hemphill </b>published in 2000 (after Genes, Peoples, and Languages had presumably gone to press) indicates that the <b>Tarim Basin populations </b>had a more complex ancestry than was initially supposed. The <b>earliest groups had their closest affinities with populations from the Indus Valley, </b>and the later ones exhibited affinities with peoples of the Oxus River Valley of south-central Asia, with both groups being considerably divergent from one another. These results argue against a Russian steppe origin for the Tarim Basin peoples... <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->... a <b>craniometric study by B. E. Hemphill </b>published in 2000 (after Genes, Peoples, and Languages had presumably gone to press) indicates that the <b>Tarim Basin populations </b>had a more complex ancestry than was initially supposed. The <b>earliest groups had their closest affinities with populations from the Indus Valley, </b>and the later ones exhibited affinities with peoples of the Oxus River Valley of south-central Asia, with both groups being considerably divergent from one another. These results argue against a Russian steppe origin for the Tarim Basin peoples... <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->