Re: Evoluation and History of Human Populations in South Asia

Open your eyes and ears and learn.
My paternal ancestors arrived in the present-day US
from Belfast c. 1746. As my last name suggests, they
were of Scottish ancestry, from Kintyre, and spoke
Gaelic.
The Celtic languages spread from the north side of the
Alps: present-day Switzerland, Bavaria, Austria. Do
Scots and Irish have the same DNA as Bavarians,
Austrians and Swiss? No.
Most have the same DNA markers from the Atlantic Coast
of Europe --either those shared with the Basque or
those shared with Scandinavians.
My Y-chromosome marker in fact is J-2 from present day
Kurdistan. Evidently my paternal ancestor was one of
the less than 1% of Scots and Irish whose forbears
introduced agriculture into Europe. The gene petered
out significantly at the Alps.
Read, don't cherry-pick items for the sake of dogma

--- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > So what ?
> >
> > Do you think you can find a trace
> > in the genes of black African people ?
> > accounting for the fact that most of them
> > speak either English or French ?
> > The invasion of a dominant ultra-thin layer
> > can impose its language.
> >
> > This study proves nothing
> > when it comes to Indo-Aryan languages
> > being invaders from outside.
> > This invasion is a fact,
> > not a kind of "working hypothesis".
> >
> > Denying that is absurd.
> >
> > Arnaud
>
> "This invasion is a fact,
> > not a kind of "working hypothesis"."
>
> A Fact must be based on objectively verifiable
> evidence. The only
> "evidence" you have is the hypothetically
> reconstructed PIE which is
> basically Greek phonology tagged on to Sansrkit
> vocabulary. Such a
> reconstruction is not sufficient to locate where and
> when this
> language may have been spoken. There are about
> seventy working
> hypotheses about that question (Mallory). The area
> NW India-Pakistan
> is definitely one of these working hypotheses.
>
> M. Kelkar
>
>
>
> > ====================
> >
>
>
>

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