Scientists Compared Malayali DNA To Tamil DNA — The Results Shocked Everyone

Scientists Compared Malayali DNA To Tamil DNA — The Results Shocked Everyone 📚 WANT TO KNOW WHERE YOUR ANCESTORS REALLY CAME FROM? Get our two-book bundle — "What Your DNA Is Really Telling You" (how to read your DNA results, ancestry percentages and haplogroups) + "Origins: The Ancient DNA Story of Every Human On Earth" (every major human migration, from Out of Africa to today): 👉 https://ancientdnafiles.gumroad.com/l/ujkmi ❤️ Want to support the research behind these videos? Join us on Patreon: 👉 https://patreon.com/AncientDNAFiles At the Walayar checkpoint, the signs change from Tamil to Malayalam in a few minutes. Two languages, two states, two proud identities. But when scientists compared the DNA, the real dividing lines of South India turned out to be somewhere nobody expected. We count down seven comparisons between Malayalis and Tamils: how Malayalam grew out of early Tamil and why a Tamil epic was written by a Chera prince; the Western Ghats wall and the Palakkad Gap; the sea trade of Muziris, Calicut and Kochi, and how little ancestry it actually left; Kerala's matrilineal tharavads versus Tamil family lines; the forest peoples of the Ghats and Nilgiris; the three ancient ancestral layers inside both; and a #1 that changes how you see every border in India. A note on accuracy: many genetic studies of South India group communities into broad categories, and not every community in Kerala or Tamil Nadu has been studied in detail, so the patterns described are broad. The dating of Malayalam's separation from Tamil is debated by linguists. Communities with traditions of foreign origin may carry small amounts of outside ancestry, but data for many is limited. No community, caste, religion or region is ranked above another. Be careful with "Tamil %", "Malayali %" or "Aryan / Dravidian %" results from hobbyist calculators; they are not peer-reviewed. SOURCES: Reich et al. (2009) — Reconstructing Indian population history, Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08365 Narasimhan et al. (2019) — The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia, Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7487 Moorjani et al. (2013) — Genetic evidence for recent population mixture in India, American Journal of Human Genetics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.07.006 Nakatsuka et al. (2017) — The promise of discovering population-specific disease-associated genes in South Asia, Nature Genetics https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3917 Kolipakam et al. (2018) — A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family, Royal Society Open Science https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171504 #Malayali #Tamil #AncientDNA TAGS: malayali vs tamil, malayali tamil dna, malayali dna, tamil dna, kerala dna, tamil nadu dna, are malayalis tamils, malayalam from tamil, chera dynasty, sangam age, silappatikaram, palakkad gap, palakkad iyers, western ghats, muziris, muziris papyrus, kerala sea trade, marumakkathayam, nair tharavad, matrilineal kerala, cholanaikkan, toda tribe, nilgiri tribes, ancestral south indian, south indian dna, dravidian dna, indian caste genetics, indian dna, ancient dna india, ancient genetics archive