What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2

[G.Subramaniam]

Brown-skinned, blue-eyed, Y-haplogroup C-bearing European hunter-gatherer from Spain (Olalde et al. 2014)



There is nothing like a little ancient DNA weirdness to start off 2014, which promises to be as exciting as 2013 was.



The new study La Brana 1 identifies it as ancestral in the SLC24A5 locus in which virtually all Europeans are derived. This comes in the heels of the Loschbour preprint which identified that sample from Luxembourg as also being ancestral. Taken together, it's now clear that hunter-gatherers from Mesolithic Western Europe were brown.



Curiously, it now seems that both Europe and India were (in part) inhabited by brown people and became lighter by a process of admixture + selection. The process went "all the way" in Europe, but a cline of pigmentation was sustained in India.



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Summary, White skin in Euro is derived from light brown Indian skin

the mutant gene is SLC24A5, even in Tamil Nadu, 35% have the newer gene

it rises as you go north east, for example 80% in Guj



But in India it is constrained due to being nearer to Equator, whereas in Europe it evolved further towards even lighter skin

Original non - Aryan Euro were black