About the ‘Ancient East Eurasian’ genetic lineage

The term Ancient East Eurasian, alternatively also known as East Eurasian or Eastern Eurasian, is used in population genomics to describe the genetic ancestry and phylogenetic relationship of diverse populations primarily living in the Asia-Pacific region, belonging to the “Eastern Eurasian clade” of human genetic diversity, and which can be associated with the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) wave “ascribed to a population movement with uniform genetic features and material culture”, following the Out of Africa migration (>60kya). They are occasionally also known as ‘Eastern non-Africans’. Modern humans of the Initial Upper Paleolithic wave and material culture (IUP) are suggested to have expanded from a population hub through a star-like expansion pattern (>45kya), and are broadly ancestral to modern populations in Eastern Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas, notably East Asians, Southeast Asians, Indigenous Siberians, Aboriginal Australians, Papuans, Pacific Islanders, and partly Indigenous Americans, South Asians and Central Asians. While certain Initial Upper Paleolithic populations represented by specimens found in Central Asia and Europe, such as the Ust’-Ishim man, Bacho Kiro or Oase 2, are inferred to be deeply diverged and having used an inland route, the ancestors of all modern East Eurasian (Asia-Pacific) populations are inferred to have used a Southern dispersal route through South Asia, where they subsequently diverged rapidly. <a href="https://medium.com/@TheGeneticistAW/about-the-ancient-east-eurasian-genetic-lineage-f31828d4931c">Website</a>