Tried to access the recent article "The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia" by Vagheesh Narasimhan et al published in the journal Science [Sept 6, 2019], but could not get access to it through the University of Michigan Library. I am wondering if someone has downloaded this article and can share with me. Thanks.

Hi Madhav,

You can get the article from Reich’s website. I repost below what I said earlier on the Indo-Eurasian List, where we routinely track the aDNA evidence.

Best,

Steve

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Dear List,

Published yesterday in Science: the most important study yet of the population of South Asia & Central Asia, out of David Reich’s lab at Harvard. What amazing progress in the field in the last four years!

The paper is behind paywalls — a Science specialty — but there is a direct link to the pdf at the Reich lab webpage. Magnificent maps and multiple summaries as well (check out Box 2. Summary of key findings)!

https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/2019_Science_NarasimhanPatterson_CentralSouthAsia.pdf

Narendra Modi & the BJP party & all their Hindutva friends I’m sure — since they follow the science closely — will be convinced by the evidence here to change their views of ancient history! :)

If you have some spare time, count the number of authors on the paper.

The lesson in the count: a reminder that science is a collective & international endeavor, which is exactly why no scientific paper — ever, under any circumstances — should be hidden behind paywalls.

Steve

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The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

Vagheesh M. Narasimhan1*†, Nick Patterson2,3*†, Priya Moorjani4,5‡, Nadin Rohland1,2‡, Rebecca Bernardos1, Swapan Mallick1,2,6‡, Iosif Lazaridis1, Nathan Nakatsuka1,7, Iñigo Olalde1, Mark Lipson1, Alexander M. Kim1,8, Luca M. Olivieri9, Alfredo Coppa10, Massimo Vidale9,11, James Mallory12, Vyacheslav Moiseyev13, Egor Kitov14,15,16, Janet Monge17, Nicole Adamski1,6, Neel Alex18, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht1,6§, Francesca Candilio19,20, Kimberly Callan1,6, Olivia Cheronet19,21,22, Brendan J. Culleton23, Matthew Ferry1,6, Daniel Fernandes19,21,22,24, Suzanne Freilich22, Beatriz Gamarra19,21,25||¶, Daniel Gaudio19,21, Mateja Hajdinjak26, Éadaoin Harney1,6,27, Thomas K. Harper28, Denise Keating19, Ann Marie Lawson1,6, Matthew Mah1,2,6, Kirsten Mandl22, Megan Michel1,6#**, Mario Novak19,29, Jonas Oppenheimer1,6††, Niraj Rai30,31, Kendra Sirak1,19,32, Viviane Slon26, Kristin Stewardson1,6,Fatma Zalzala1,6, Zhao Zhang1, Gaziz Akhatov15, Anatoly N. Bagashev33, Alessandra Bagnera9, Bauryzhan Baitanayev15, Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento34,Arman A. Bissembaev15,35, Gian Luca Bonora36, Temirlan T. Chargynov37, Tatiana Chikisheva38, Petr K. Dashkovskiy39, Anatoly Derevianko38, Miroslav Dobeš40, Katerina Douka41,42, Nadezhda Dubova14, Meiram N. Duisengali35, Dmitry Enshin33, Andrey Epimakhov43,44, Alexey V. Fribus45, Dorian Fuller46,47, Alexander Goryachev33, Andrey Gromov13, Sergey P. Grushin48, Bryan Hanks49, Margaret Judd49, Erlan Kazizov15, Aleksander Khokhlov50, Aleksander P. Krygin51, Elena Kupriyanova52, Pavel Kuznetsov50, Donata Luiselli53, Farhod Maksudov54, Aslan M. Mamedov55, Talgat B. Mamirov15, Christopher Meiklejohn56, Deborah C. Merrett57,Roberto Micheli9,58, Oleg Mochalov50, Samariddin Mustafokulov54,59, Ayushi Nayak41, Davide Pettener60, Richard Potts61, Dmitry Razhev33, Marina Rykun62, Stefania Sarno60, Tatyana M. Savenkova63, Kulyan Sikhymbaeva64, Sergey M. Slepchenko33, Oroz A. Soltobaev37, Nadezhda Stepanova38, Svetlana Svyatko13,65, Kubatbek Tabaldiev66, Maria Teschler-Nicola22,67, Alexey A. Tishkin68, Vitaly V. Tkachev69, Sergey Vasilyev14,70, Petr Velemínský71, Dmitriy Voyakin15,72, Antonina Yermolayeva15, Muhammad Zahir41,73,Valery S. Zubkov74, Alisa Zubova13, Vasant S. Shinde75, Carles Lalueza-Fox76, Matthias Meyer26, David Anthony77, Nicole Boivin41‡, Kumarasamy Thangaraj30‡, Douglas J. Kennett23,28,78‡, Michael Frachetti79,80†, Ron Pinhasi19,22†, David Reich1,2,6,81†

On Sep 6, 2019, at 8:47 PM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Tried to access the recent article "The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia" by Vagheesh Narasimhan et al published in the journal Science [Sept 6, 2019], but could not get access to it through the University of Michigan Library. I am wondering if someone has downloaded this article and can share with me. Thanks.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
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