AASI and Onge ARE Australoid . just like how native americans and northeast asians are drifted from each other and are distant from each other yet related . just look at the people like jarawa , onge , indian tribals etc. . it is south eurasian . that is the best term
if what those bullshit studies said was true and Iran N / CHG were really 11 - 25 % onge / AASI then this would not be "minor" .....northern west asians have a lot of Iran N and CHG . if it was true then we would look like indians 100000%
South Eurasian isn’t a term used in genetic studies, and it refers to a geographic location. Not an ancestral component. Australian Aboriginals are very distinct from Onge and AASI genetically and phenotypically.
Onge are proto Mongoloids, in the sense that they are the best representatives of what East and SE Asians looked like until very recently. They share an even closer relationship to basal East Asians than AASI does. Take a look at the graph below.
When the Onge moved into northern climates, they underwent selection pressures and depigmentation, that over time resulted in the modern Mongoloid phenotype. Their hair became straighter and their selection for epicanthic folds became more intense. This is easily observable from looking at the Onge. They look nothing like Australian Aboriginals, who are genetically very distinct from them. Look at the attachment below.
There are still modern Mongoloid populations that retain these atavistic traits from their ancestors which is seen in people of the Wa tribe in China, among other East and SE Asian populations. Picture attached below. AASI would have looked similar to these populations 35,000 years ago, but it has also undergone selection of its own since then. AASI can also be modeled with Tianyuan man and even Han, and not with Australian Aboriginals. This means AASI is not Australoid, either genetically or phenotypically.
And again, the appearance of populations changes with time, and most modern day South Asians have very substantial, additional AASI admixture on top of whatever Basal East Eurasian admixture that Iran_N and CHG had. Plus they have evolved in a very different environment and don’t have as much Anatolian admixture.
So to say that Georgians and Northern West Asians would have looked like most modern day South Asians is not accurate. Most South Asians have more than 20% additional East Eurasian admixture on top of whatever ancient EEC admixture exists among CHG and Iran_N. This would substantially alter their appearance.
Only certain endogamous NW South Asian tribes with relatively minor additional AASI would retain their West Eurasian appearance and look West Eurasian, and they do not form the bulk of South Asians, as they are a minority.
