There are other hypotheses related to the Indo-European language group. http://phys.org/news/2012-08-indo-european-languages-anatolia.html
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" <yifuxero@...> wrote: > > From "The Rational Optimist - How Prosperity Evolves", by Matt Ridley, > Harper; p. 128. > ... > "...at 7,600 years ago, farmers who were happily cultivating the fertile > plains around the "Euxine Lake" suffered a rude shock, when rising sea levels > burst over the hellespont and flooded into the lake's basin, filling it at a > rate of six inches a day till it became the modern Black Sea. Baffled > refugees presumably fled up the Danube into the heart of Europe." > > " By 5,000 years ago, farmers had reached Ireland, Spain, Ethiopia and India". > > "Other descendants of the Black Sea refugees took to the plains of what is > now Ukraine where they domesticated the horse and developed a new language, > Indo-European, that would come to dominate the western half of the Eurasian > continent, and of which Sanskrit and Gaelic are both descendants." > > " It was also somehwere near the Baltic or the Black Sea between 6,000 and > 10,000 years ago that a genetic mutation, substituting G for A in a control > sequence upstream of a pigment gene called OCA2, gave adults blue eyes for > the first time. It was a mutation that would eventually be inherited by > nearly 40 percent of Europeans." >
