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

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

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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 proposition has been superceded by the current genetic 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you didn't understand most of the problems noted by Guy, since they are linguistic in nature and not capable of being superseded by genetic studies.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