10-22-2004, 06:05 PM
Most people say that M17 is the Y chromosome genetic marker showing AIT in India. But, he clearely demolishes this myth. (Google for Spencer Wells and find out for yourselves)
From the book. Page 116.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->South Asia is logically the ultimate origin of M17 and his ancestors; and sure enough we find highest rates and greatest diversity of M17 line in Pakistan, India and eastern Iran and low rates in the Caucasus. M17 is not only more diverse in south Asia than in Central Asia, but diversity characterizes its presence in isolated tribal groups in the south, thus undermining any theory of M17 as a marker of a "Male Aryan Invasion" of India. One age estimate for the origin of this line in India is as much as 51,000 years. All this suggests that M17 could have found his way initially from India or Pakistan through Kashmir, than via Central Asia and Russia, before finally comming to Eruope.
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Bye Bye, AI(M)T!
Bengurion.
From the book. Page 116.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->South Asia is logically the ultimate origin of M17 and his ancestors; and sure enough we find highest rates and greatest diversity of M17 line in Pakistan, India and eastern Iran and low rates in the Caucasus. M17 is not only more diverse in south Asia than in Central Asia, but diversity characterizes its presence in isolated tribal groups in the south, thus undermining any theory of M17 as a marker of a "Male Aryan Invasion" of India. One age estimate for the origin of this line in India is as much as 51,000 years. All this suggests that M17 could have found his way initially from India or Pakistan through Kashmir, than via Central Asia and Russia, before finally comming to Eruope.
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Bye Bye, AI(M)T!
Bengurion.