From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 46663
Date: 2006-12-12
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...>So? You completely fail to address George's point. Indeed,
> wrote:
>> 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?
> Genetics is quite releavant to tracing human migrations.