Thank you Antonia for your observations. Much appreciated. Howard > On Feb 6, 2025, at 3:03 PM, Antonia Ruppel <[email protected]> wrote: > > My take as someone who has not read the original study: I am cautious about > this for several reasons. > > -- A person's genes do not tell you what language they're speaking. > -- University alumni magazines love to talk up research from their > institutions and make its results sound much more 'decisive' than they are. > -- That they get wrong simple things like when Europeans noticed that > Sanskrit, Latin and Greek were related by well over a century does not > inspire confidence. (But hey, scientists don't need to read early 17th-c > sources in Latin, right:-)?) > > That said, if further study of the Nature article corroborated these > findings, I'd be more than delighted. I'm definitely going to take a look. > > --Antonia > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 15:22, Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Dear Scholars, >> >> Is this study as final and definitive as the article claims? Thanks! >> >> Howard >> >> <020425_Yamnaya_016.jpeg> >> Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages— Harvard Gazette >> news.harvard.edu >> >> <https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/landmark-studies-track-source-of-indo-european-languages-spoken-by-40-of-world/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020250206%20(1)&spMailingID=35820945&spUserID=MjM4ODIxNjk1NDQyS0&spJobID=2843202028&spReportId=Mjg0MzIwMjAyOAS2>Landmark >> studies track source of Indo-European languages— Harvard Gazette >> <https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/landmark-studies-track-source-of-indo-european-languages-spoken-by-40-of-world/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020250206%20(1)&spMailingID=35820945&spUserID=MjM4ODIxNjk1NDQyS0&spJobID=2843202028&spReportId=Mjg0MzIwMjAyOAS2> >> news.harvard.edu >> <https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/landmark-studies-track-source-of-indo-european-languages-spoken-by-40-of-world/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020250206%20(1)&spMailingID=35820945&spUserID=MjM4ODIxNjk1NDQyS0&spJobID=2843202028&spReportId=Mjg0MzIwMjAyOAS2> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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