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 proposition has been superceded by the current genetic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linguistic in nature and not capable of being superseded by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