
Gengar
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The title is a joke, don’t get offended. But the underlying message is true: I am debunking their claims. They were falsely claiming that Punjabis and Dravidians have a genetic distance of 0.08, implying shared modern ancestry. They misinterpreted the data from Vahaduo, even after I corrected them. It’s actually a genetic distance of 8, and therefore there is no recent shared ancestry between us.
Using my personal genetic data, I checked the distance between myself and another northwestern Indic individual, considering I’m also a northwestern Indic (Punjabi).
As you can see, Vahaduo says there’s a distance of 0.02152955. According to them, this would mean a genetic distance of 0.02. Wrong. The real genetic distance is 2.15.
To demonstrate this, I added our G25 coordinates into Genoplot’s PCA plot. You can clearly observe the genetic is actually 2.15, and not 0.02, which lines up with what I said earlier.
Once there's a genetic distance of 5 or more, there is NO shared ancestry. To put my post into perspective, two individuals from the same province in the same country were slightly more distant than an Irish person is to a Belgian (a genetic distance of 2.11)! In terms of Punjabis and Dravidians, it's a genetic distance that's 4x as the distance between an Irish person and a Belgian. Let that sink in.
THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-DRAVIDIAN POST! PERSONALLY I DO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH A LOT OF DRAVIDIANS BUT IT IS ANCIENT. MY MALE ANCESTORS MIXED WITH THEIR FEMALE ANCESTORS THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. THERE IS SIMPLY NO RECENT SHARED ANCESTRY.
Using my personal genetic data, I checked the distance between myself and another northwestern Indic individual, considering I’m also a northwestern Indic (Punjabi).

As you can see, Vahaduo says there’s a distance of 0.02152955. According to them, this would mean a genetic distance of 0.02. Wrong. The real genetic distance is 2.15.
To demonstrate this, I added our G25 coordinates into Genoplot’s PCA plot. You can clearly observe the genetic is actually 2.15, and not 0.02, which lines up with what I said earlier.

Once there's a genetic distance of 5 or more, there is NO shared ancestry. To put my post into perspective, two individuals from the same province in the same country were slightly more distant than an Irish person is to a Belgian (a genetic distance of 2.11)! In terms of Punjabis and Dravidians, it's a genetic distance that's 4x as the distance between an Irish person and a Belgian. Let that sink in.
THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-DRAVIDIAN POST! PERSONALLY I DO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH A LOT OF DRAVIDIANS BUT IT IS ANCIENT. MY MALE ANCESTORS MIXED WITH THEIR FEMALE ANCESTORS THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. THERE IS SIMPLY NO RECENT SHARED ANCESTRY.