"In reading the genetics literature on South Asia, it is very clear that many of the studies actually start out with s…"

"Most genetic studies are built on unstated, unproven (and often unwitting) assumptions: not only that migration is th…"

"South Asia has indeed been at the crossroads for much of modern human prehistory."

"Confusing language movements with demographic movements was a childhood disease of Indo-European linguistics before 1…"

"Nothing in the osteometric data shows that relationships existed between the populations of the Oxus Civilization and…"

"Unfortunately, genetic studies sometimes draw conclusions about language, which is entirely incorrect. Genetics addre…"

"Only 5% of the Y chromosomes of the R1a-Z93 subtype that occurs at 100% frequency in the steppe population are presen…"

"The data provide no support for any model of massive migration and gene flow between the oases of Bactria and the Ind…"

"As for the question of biological continuity within the Indus Valley, two discontinuities appear to exist. The first …"

"Overall percentages [of steppe ancestry] are generally very low, and in South Asia also too late for a plausible firs…"