The human populations of the region adapted — as human populations always do — to the changed conditions.

The cultural traditions of the Mal’ta-Buret’ period gave way to successor cultures adapted to the new post-glacial environment.

The genetic heritage of the Ancient North Eurasians was gradually diluted and mixed with the ancestry of populations moving in from other directions: East Asian populations expanding westward and northward as conditions warmed, and eventually, in some regions, populations with connections to western Eurasia.

The Ancient North Eurasian ancestry does not appear in pure form in any modern population.