Biology trumps linguistics?

[Eric Nielsen]

Turkey or Armenia?

Eric

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> But of course it did! Right at the foot of Mt. Ararat, in the shadow of
> Noah's Ark. So did every other family tree--they just haven't tested
> /that/ hypothesis yet.
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>      VS-)
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> On 8/24/2012 1:07 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > "Family Tree of [Indo-European] Languages Has Roots in Anatolia,
> > Biologists Say", by Nicholas Wade.
> > NYTimes, today (Aug. 24), A8 (N.E. Edition).
> > http://tinyurl.com/bw59qly
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> > (The illustration's legend begins with an unfortunate sentence: "A
> > new study suggests that the sprawling Indo-European family of
> > languages originated in Anatolia, or modern-day Turkey."  Surely the
> > I-E family did not originate in modern-day Turkey.)
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> > Joel
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