Same with the notion of a gap centered in South As...

Same with the notion of a gap centered in South Asia, which you originally claimed there was no genetic evidence for. Then, when I provided you with genetic evidence from prominent researchers, you dismissed it as obviously wrong. And after I then went on to provide additional evidence, you dismissed that as well.

Now, after you’ve insisted there were no genetic signs of a connection between India and Australia, and I’ve provided you with two separate studies based on exactly that sort of connection.

Well, may I remind you that the paper of Soares was provided by me to you and not the other way around. I did so you could have different viewpoints on the matter with a recent paper on age estimates that are different than my own. I do not fear different opinions but I am ready to discuss them openly.

The paper of Cordaux is highly irrelevant and obsolete anyhow and I have already explained why to you and whoever reads this discussion. Feel free to discuss the matter objectively but stop making appeals to authority to counter good arguments because that is a quite poor way of doing science, rather a method to mislead by selectively picking the authors that better fit you and selectively interpreting their conclusions also at your own convenience.

I have in the past provided other materials that you have conveniently forgotten. When I engage in debates and collaborations like these, I expect honesty from the other side, not tendentiousness and sloppiness.

If you have some critical neurones still left, and I believe you do, you must realize that all the supposed Indo-Australian connections you have mentioned are ridiculously trivial (all refer to minor lineages and in some cases the phylogeny is not even clearly established - and all or most of them claim this alleged minor connection is recent, not ancient).

This is the definition of a nit-picker, Maju, and I warn you, unless you change your ways, you will become a permanent member of that sad tribe.

Sincerely I prefer to be a nit-picker that to be self-deluded as you seem to be right now.

... but science would grind to a halt if we let the nit pickers have the last word.

Science would not be science if we would stop paying attention to the details. The Devil is in the details, goes the English saying, and has lots of reason. If we ignore them, we just get lost in a world of imprecise fantasy and speculation and science dies.

Rigor is important.