This topic, right here, is the oldest love child born to the politician and academic in India. Its name is Zerosumgame and inherits the best traits - emotional quotient & brute force attraction. The child, now an adult, sustains and nourishes the parents very well.
When you see Narasimhan et al. 2019 turn up in MAGA talking points, you really have to wonder about the amount of pandering that the David Reich camp did in early frameworks to push a non-factual assertion. It has been seven years and still no L657 on the Steppes (after 600 samples). No retraction either.
Things population genetics have proven in recent years:
- Out of Africa theory was wrong
- "West Eurasians" (White people) were selected for intelligence (Akbari et al., 2026)
- Sub-Saharan Africans have a signficiant percentage of "ghost DNA" belonging to a now extinct hominid species (Durvasula & Sankararaman, 2020)
- The ancestors of modern Northern Europeans invaded India and established Vedic civilization (Narasimhan et al., 2019)
The supposedly debunked "race science" of the early 20th C. was far more correct than post-war anthropology. Normie discourse is decades behind.
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Can't help but to notice how similar this Egyptian creation myth is to the Vedic one.
Primordial nothingness, chaotic waters, the Cosmic Egg - all attested in both traditions.
Also, association of Lotus with the Sun & the Sun as the soruce of humanity.
The Yaz Cultures are a very good source for the steppes ancestry in modern Indians. Very pertinent to note that the Avesta strongly condemns women who mingle with daeva-worshippers. Not in a sporadic fashion, it invents new theology (Jahi) to do this. The female biased admixture was at industrial-scale proportions, I think.
Interesting, this - one of the Vakṣu (वक्षु) tributaries was the location of Zarathustra's hometown - this marks him as a BMAC man. Viktor Sarianidi made a really good longshot assessment of the nature of BMAC.
A seriality of coincidences
A meticulous 2026 paper from CA Petrie, FK Jürcke, TC Wilkinson & HA Orengo on mobility in the Iranian Plateau allows us to make some startling re-interpretations of IVC finds. The authors devise a multi-factor probabilistic route model (MPRM) to tackle the age old problem of archaeological least-cost.