The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

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journal article

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Science, vol. 365, no. 6457, eaat7487

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Yes

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• event Sampled ancestry profiles change across Central and South Asia
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Ancient-genome dataset and population models

  Provides the sampled ancestry changes.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Ancient-genome dataset and population models

  Provides the sampled ancestry changes.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Ancient-genome dataset and population models

  Provides the sampled ancestry changes.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Ancient-genome dataset and population models

  Provides the sampled ancestry changes.

• date assertion Sampled ancestry profiles change across Central and South Asia — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Ancient-genome dataset and population models

  Provides the sampled ancestry changes.

• claim Genetic ancestry components do not directly identify Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Vedic or any other language.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · provides scientific evidence · Genomic models

  Provides ancestry evidence without direct language observations.

• claim Provenance, typological resemblance, exchange, transmitted technology, movement of individuals and mass migration are distinct claims.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · provides scientific evidence · Individual ancestry data

  Provides a third evidence type.

• claim Ancient-DNA samples from selected graves cannot represent every person, settlement or archaeological culture in Central Asia.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · provides scientific evidence · Sample set and population models

  Provides the underlying data.