Dr. Arjun Pai – Grzegorz Skwarek: interview
Indian origin of haplogroup R1a1
The paper does not appear to be live yet, so I cannot comment on the specifics. However, judging from the abstract I see no reason to agree with the authors’ conclusions. My most recent observations on the topic can be found in Origin of Hindu Brahmins. The authors’ observation of paragroup R1a* Y-chromosomes in India is in itself unremarkable, as such chromosomes have been found outside India, e.g., in North Iran, Crete, and Greek Macedonia (and I’m sure elsewhere). The argument about the presence of R1a1 in tribals does not carry force, as its presence there (at much lower frequencies than in Brahmin groups) can be explained as the result of occasional admixture.
We have received sensational results. In Russia lives only 66 million Slavs, and along with Ukraine and Belarus there are about 92 million. In all Western Europe live approximately 66 million Western Slavs (as in Russia). But in Asia itself they do not know that they are Slavs, i.e. 650 million people. It turned out that more than 810 million people in Eurasia have the R1a1 Haplogroup in Asia which means the second group in the world after the Chinese Haplogroup O (Han Chinese – 1137 million people – in 2010 ).
