Our kind, Homo Sapiens (this is important since there were several other kinds of human species coexisting 100 - 200,000+ years with Sapiens like Homo Erectus, Neanderthals and Denisovans), ventured out of Africa to Asia first and Europe later between 40 - 60,000 years ago. Americas being the last continent to be settled by the journeying biped Sapiens 16,000 years ago.
All people outside of Africa in the world today are descended from a single African woman of L3 haplogroup. In a similar vein all people outside of Africa (i.e. modern human = Home Sapiens) are descended from a single man of CT haplogroup. In short our differences are only skin deep and race is a powerful illusion that everyone of us has bought into.
The journalist author Tony Joseph focuses on the group(s) that migrated out of Africa, in three different waves, at three different time periods and became the ancestors of all the people currently inhabiting the Indian sub-continent. It is an extremely interesting and easy to read book based on anthropological, archaeological findings till now and the explosion of DNA evidence and research papers published since 2015 based on these DNA findings.
What Early Indians is not is, it is not an international pop-sci best seller like the Sapiens with its far-fetched and reductionist claims which made Sapiens the non-fiction counterpart of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, in my mind. Hot garbage, Early Indians is not. If you have roots in the Indian Subcontinent and if your attention span can hold for about 270+ pages, it does not have to be in one sitting, this is a book worth reading.
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