From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 46656
Date: 2006-12-10
>On these lines, check out this facetious message posted at another
> I haven't read Danino, so my comments rely exclusively
> on the quote from his "conclusion" as given below.
> 1) If there are neither "Caucasoid" nor "Central
> Asian" genes in the Indian pool studied, and if one
> concludes thence that there is no
> "genetic" proof of invasion or infiltration from the
> north, then one ought also, in the absence of further
> arguments, hold that there is no "genetic" proof of
> the reverse movement. Which leaves us with two
> "unpenetrated" solitudes. And yet the linguistic facts
> suggest a very close relationship between Indic and
> Iranic and between Indic and other Indo-European
> languages.
> 2) So if the above holds, then we must conclude that
> genetics is completely irrelevant to the issue of AIT
> vs. OIT.
> But is the above (and the quote below) really true?