Re: Re[4]: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

From: Gerry
Message: 19972
Date: 2003-03-17

Brian,
Based on a few earlier posts by Glen, I am doing a rethink about a relationship between genes and language families.  Cavalli-Sforza (et al) is making the horrible assumption that language and genes are co-dependent when ugh! that idea is totally absurd. 
 
Gerry
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian M. Scott
To: Geraldine Reinhardt
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 5:42 AM
Subject: Re[4]: [tied] How should Nostratic be viewed?

At 11:06:43 PM on Sunday, March 16, 2003, Geraldine
Reinhardt wrote:

> Good link. If Jacques Guy (whoever he is) had difficulty
> relating genes to population group, fine. He wrote his
> blurb in 1992, more than a decade ago. Jacques Guy and his
> proposition has been superceded by the current genetic
> studies by Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto
> Piazza.

In case you hadn't noticed, he wrote it about precisely the
tree to which you referred, the one in which Cavalli-Sforza
attempts to match genetics and linguistic entities.  The
attempt is notoriously flawed.  I suspect that you didn't
understand most of the problems noted by Guy, since they are
linguistic in nature and not capable of being superseded by
genetic studies.

Brian