Re: The indo european "race"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ghozzis" <ghozzis@...> wrote:

> Hello!
> I know that "races" dont exist, and I know that indo-europeans may
> have not been a unique race, but, how to explain the differences in
> physical aspects for example between Italians and Germans? Already

in

> the Antiquity, Julius Caesar says the Germans are laughing at the
> Latins because of their small size, and he often call them "giants"!
> How can it be that, if, say, Germans and Latins were a unique

people

> for example in 2000 bc that they physical type so rapidally differ?
> So, do you have explanations why it seems that Germans and Latins

are

> two populations very far from another genetically, though at the

time

> of Caesar they had been separated since only a few thousands years.
>

The Germanic languages and the Latin language descended from a common
ancestor language spoken several thousand years before Caesar but
that does not mean that the German and Latin peoples descended
exclusively from the people who spoke that language.

Ned Smith