Razib Khan: surveys of the great ancient human DNA Diasporas
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
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The Indo European Languages Are All Over the World Right Now
There have been russian historical linguists and philologists who have argued that actually, the indo european languages may have spread from anatolia. This was actually picked up by callid renfu, the archaeologist, and he argued in the seventies that Indo European isa is a language that was spread by agriculture into europe with the first farmers. That's probably almost certainly wrong. And so within the european linguistic philogony, there is a thesis that a word called 'india european' split out of anatolian languages. So it's an out-of-order order, like hittite and all these other words for
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