The latest PNAS carries this article on a prehistory of Indian Y-chromosome. This conclusion might interest some of you (though most of the technical details escape me):
It is not necessary, based on the current evidence, to look beyond South Asia for the origins of the paternal heritage of the majority of Indians at the time of the onset of settled agriculture. The perennial concept of people, language, and agriculture arriving to India together through the northwest corridor does not hold up to close scrutiny.
Have a look!
Tags: Indian
January 26, 2006 at 5:09 am |
Guru,
Some distantly related stuff! I saw a documentary of a DNA research with a tie up between an Australian Dr. Spencer Wells and Dr. Pichappan of Madurai Kamaraj U. They show evidence of the early human migration through sea from Africa to India and eventually to Australia. Hence they trace back Dravidian civilization to Africa. They found this gene evidence among some tribes around madurai.
This is the link
http://www.microbiol.unimelb.edu.au/14ihiws/projects/projects16.html
Ram
January 26, 2006 at 3:47 pm |
Guru,
In the http://www.science.com you can find some interesting .mpg files about evolution if you are interested. And this link below has some interesting stuff too
http://www.geocities.com/somasushma/