"This neatly fits the earlier findings of non-genetic (morphological) physical anthropology, viz. that the population type of northwestern India has remained the same for at least 8,000 years.... In deference to established Indological opinion, the biologists make a perfunctory nod toward the āsupposedā Aryan invasion, only to state that they have found no evidence for this popular supposition: āTheir low frequency [i.e. of the West-Asia-related genes] but still general spread all over India plus the estimated time scale does not support a recent massive Aryan invasion, at least as far as maternally inherited genetic lineages are concerned.ā"
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Current Biology (London), vol.9, nrs.22 and 24, by T. Kivisild et al. (āDeep common ancestry of Indian and Western-Eurasian mitochonrdial DNA lineagesā), quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2007). Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate.with quote of āDeep common ancestry of Indian and Western-Eurasian mitochonrdial DNA lineagesā
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