Re: [TIED] Re: IE, AA, Nostratic etc.

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 2775
Date: 2000-07-07

Piotr:
> By contrast, there is no evidence of abnormally low genetic >diversity
>for humans. I think it's highly likely that the total >population of early
>anatomically modern Homo sapiens was fully >sustainable (that is, rather
>large) at any time; and if so, then given >the size of primitive social
>units, it was simply too large to support >just one language community.

Mark O:
>The concept of 'proto-World' is not improbable, though it might >possibly
>be better called 'neo-proto-World' in that language may have >been
>invented before this genetic bottleneck, and only one branch >survived.

Well, I guess we're all in agreement. I have this same explanation of human
language origins on my site in more laymen English...

http://glen-gordon.tripod.com/language.html

...You guys seem to sound so much more scholarly when yous explain it :)

- gLeN
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