graph TD
%% --- Section 1: Out of Africa & Early Splits ---
A[Humans come out of Africa]
A --> Branch_Papuan["the branch leading to part of the ancestry of the Papuans and the Australian aborigines..."]
A --> Ancestral_Eurasian["the ancestral 'Eurasian branches' situated in Inner Eurasia - splits 45-36.2k BP"]
A --> Onge_Ancestor["the common ancestor of the Onge of the Andamans and the main-land proto-Indians..."]
Onge_Ancestor -.-> Pre_Americans
Ancestral_Eurasian --> East_Asians[East Asians]
Ancestral_Eurasian --> Western_Eurasians[Western Eurasians]
%% --- Section 2: East Asian & American Lineage ---
East_Asians --> Pre_Americans["Ancestors of Native Americans, Mongols, Turks, Siberians. Q1a Y clade."]
%% --- Section 3: Proto-Indian Lineage ---
Onge_Ancestor --> Proto_Indian[Proto Indian population]
Proto_Indian --> Ganga_Neolithic["Possible Ganga neolithic agriculture"]
Proto_Indian --> Mehrgarh["Mehrgarh Neolithic agriculture 9-10 kyr BP (No ancient genomes)"]
Proto_Indian --> Harappan["Harappan bronze age civilization"]
%% --- Section 4: Western Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers ---
Western_Eurasians --> ANE["Ancestral North Eurasians (ANE) ~24 kyr BP in Siberia"]
ANE -.-> Pre_Americans
Western_Eurasians --> PreHG["Many groups 9-7k BP"]
PreHG --> EHG["Eastern hunter gatherers EHG"]
PreHG --> WHG["Western Euro hunter gatherers (WHG) SLC24A5 dark skin allele, HERC2/OCA2 allele blue eyes fixed"]
PreHG --> SHG["Scandinavian hunter gatherers SHG"]
PreHG --> LightSkin["SLC4SA5 Light skin allele fixation"]
LightSkin --> CHG["Caucasian hunter gatherers (CHG) SLC4SA2 dark skin allele"]
%% --- Section 5: Neolithic Farmers ---
LightSkin --> Anatolia_EF["Neolithic Early Farmers (EF) in Anatolia"]
Anatolia_EF --> Euro_Farmers["8-7.5 kyr Neolithic Euro farmers"]
Euro_Farmers --> Danube["Danube system"]
Danube --> MN_Farmers["Middle Neolithic farmers - 6.5kyr BP"]
EHG --> MN_Farmers
Euro_Farmers --> Sardinians["Sardinians, Spaniards, Basque"]
%% --- Section 6: Yamnaya Formation (The Steppe) ---
EHG --> Steppe_MLBA["~EHG (42-52%)- CHG(48-58%)7.2-5 kyr BP to Bronze age Middle Volga/ Samara, pontic steppes"]
CHG --> Steppe_MLBA
Steppe_MLBA --> Maikop["Maikop culture in Caucus. straddles steppe and Mid East cultures. Trade with Harappa. Wheel and charriot."]
Steppe_MLBA --> PIE["Proto Indo Europeans. Chakra and ratha words."]
PIE --> GrArIIr["Sintashta/ Srubnaya > Andronovo?? Or Sintashta branch?"]
%% --- Section 7: Yamnaya Expansions & Descendants ---
PIE --> Yamnaya["Yamnaya culture dated ~5.0-4.3 kyr BP Proto-IE Increased height, SLC45A2 light skin allele at 0.7 freq, lactose tolerance only 0.25 freq. predominantly R1b Y chr."]
PIE --> Hittites
Yamnaya --> Altai_Invasion["Altai Invasion 5.3-5 kyr BP"]
Yamnaya --> Massive_EU_Invasion["Massive EU Invasion ~4.9 kyr BP. Germanic, Italic and Celtic groups"]
Massive_EU_Invasion --> Corded_Ware["Corded ware/ battle axe culture ~4.9 kyr BP Central Europe ~4.3 kyr BP reaches Atlantic"]
MN_Farmers --> Corded_Ware
Corded_Ware --> Light_Skin_Lactose["SLC45A2 light skin allele fixed, rs4988235 in the LCT gene region for lactose tolerance at 0.7 freq."]
Yamnaya --> Baltic_Slavic["Baltic and Slavic groups. Left after Germans etc... Contact evident with Indo Iranians... Possibly from Poltavka."]
GrArIIr --> Greeks_Armenians["Greeks, Armenians"]
%% --- Section 9: Sintashta/Andronovo & Proto-Indo-Iranians ---
Altai_Invasion --> Afanasievo["Alfenaslevo culture Tocharian IE"]
Afanasievo --> Okunevo["Okunevo culture in Altai. Distinct."]
Pre_Americans -.-> Okunevo
Okunevo --> Andronovo_Intrusion["Andronovo Intrusion"]
Andronovo_Intrusion --> Karasuk["Karasuk culture"]
Karasuk --> Uighurs
Yamnaya --> Sintashta_Complex["Sintashta-Potapovka- Filatovka complex, large scale metal works, forts, towers, ditches, weapons, spoke wheel chariots, elaborate jewels"]
Sintashta_Complex --> Filatovka["Filatovka/Kondrashevka culture in the upper reaches of the Don river -- ~4.1 kyr"]
Sintashta_Complex --> EF_Infusion["17% EF Infusion, rise of R1a Y chromosome haplogroup"]
Anatolia_EF -.-> EF_Infusion
EF_Infusion --> Poltavka["Poltavka culture (~4.9-4.2 kyr) same place as Yamnaya. R1b dominates."]
EF_Infusion --> Indo_Iranians_R1a
Poltavka --> Srubnaya["3.9-3.8 kyr BP Srubnaya culture. R1a-Z93 Same place as Yamnaya."]
Indo_Iranians_R1a --> Srubnaya
Indo_Iranians_R1a --> Sintashta["Sintashta culture in the east in the zone between the Urals and the Tobol river ~4.1kyr"]
Sintashta --> Seima_Turbino["Seima-Turbino phenomenon, Andronovo culture. 3.9-3.8 kyr BP, Sn- bronze. R1a-Z93 (R1a1a1b2) appears."]
Andronovo_Intrusion -.-> Seima_Turbino
Seima_Turbino --> Eurasia_Expansion["Expansion over all of central Eurasia"]
%% --- Section 10: Indo-Aryan Migration ---
GrArIIr --> Indo_Iranians_R1a["Indo Iranians. R1a-Z93 (R1a1a1b2) dominates."]
Indo_Iranians_R1a --> India_Invasion_BMAC["CHG Invasion of India? Mixture with CHG in Bactria-Margiana complex (BMAC)?"]
India_Invasion_BMAC --> India_Trade["India trade, Intervention and invasion"]
Harappan -.-> India_Trade
%% --- STYLING ---
style A fill:#3c91e6,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
style PIE fill:#ff9900,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
style Indo_Iranians_R1a fill:#ff9900,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
style India_Trade fill:#ff9900,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
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