Re: [tied] Re: Black Athena: The Afroasiatic RootsofClassicalCivili

At 2:11:36 PM on Friday, June 9, 2006, mkelkar2003 wrote:

> Genetic Distance and Language Affinities

> http://www.friesian.com/trees.htm

> On the genetic distance chart IE and AA speakers appear
> next to each other if that means anything at all to the
> linguists.

That's the Cavalli-Sforza chart from the 1991 Scientific
American article. It's seriously flawed, to put it mildly.
See, for instance, Jacques Guy's criticism on the Linguist
List:

<http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9201d&L=linguist&D=1&P=2989>

Brian