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BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN<br />

Kushite rulers were great kingdom builders who controlled the major water systems and the<br />

ancient world. Nimrod, the son of Kush, is but one example.<br />

There is genetic evidence that the Proto-Saharan ancestors of the Kushites moved west along<br />

the interconnected water systems between the Nile, Lake Chad, and the Niger-Benue Trough.<br />

Outside of the Nile Valley and some north African countries, this is the only other place in Africa<br />

where the M haplogroup is found.’”<br />

Wikipedia gives the following:<br />

”The genetic analysis of two Y chromosome variants, Hgr9 and Hgr3 provides insightful<br />

data. Microsatellite variation of Hgr9 among Iranians, Indians and Pakistanis indicate an expansion<br />

of populations to around 9000 YBP in Iran and then to 6,000 YBP in India. This migration<br />

originated in what was historically termed Elam in south-west Iran to the Indus valley, and<br />

may have been associated with the spread of Dravidian speakers from south-west Iran.<br />

Subsequently, the Indo-Aryan migration into subcontinent from Sintashta culture about 4,000 ybp.<br />

and the Tibeto-Burmans and Austroasiatics possibly from the Himalayan and north-eastern borders<br />

of the subcontinent.<br />

The most frequent mtDNA haplogroups in the Indian subcontinent are M, R and U.<br />

All major Y chromosome DNA haplogroups in the subcontinent are Haplogroup F's descendant<br />

haplogroups R (mostly R2a, R2 and R1a1), L, H and J (mostly J2). Haplogroup F itself is found<br />

highest in Dravidian speakers in Eurasia.<br />

Arguing for the longer term "rival Y-Chromosome model", Stephen Oppenheimer believes that it<br />

is highly suggestive that India is the origin of the Eurasian mtDNA haplogroups which he calls the<br />

"Eurasian Eves". According to Oppenheimer it is highly probable that nearly all human maternal<br />

lineages in Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe descended from only four mtDNA lines that<br />

originated in South Asia 50,000-100,000 years ago.<br />

According to the phylogeographic distribution of haplotypes observed among South Asian<br />

populations defined by social and linguistic criteria, the possibility arose of haplogroup F might have<br />

originated in or near India. The presence of several subclusters of F-M89 and K that are largely<br />

restricted to the Indian subcontinent is consistent with the scenario that a coastal (southern route)<br />

of early human migration out of Africa carried ancestral Eurasian lineages first to the coast<br />

of the Indian subcontinent, or that some of them originated there.<br />

In a 2009 study of 132 individuals, 560,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 25 different Indian<br />

groups were analysed, providing strong evidence in support of the notion that modern south<br />

Asians (both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian groups) are a hybrid population descending from<br />

two post-Neolithic, genetically divergent populations referred to as the 'Ancestral North<br />

Indians' and the 'Ancestral South Indians'. According to the study, Andamanese are an ASIrelated<br />

group through maternal subgroup of M mtDNA[48] without ANI ancestry, showing that the<br />

peopling of the islands must have occurred before ANI-ASI gene flow on the mainland.”<br />

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