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]> wrote: > Dear Scholars, > > Is this study as final and definitive as the article claims? Thanks! > > Howard > > [image: 020425_Yamnaya_016.jpeg] > > 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> > > <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] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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