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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@> wrote:
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> > No. I'm pointing out that your quasi-religious faith that
> > 'these Germanic-Afrasian (especially Semitic) isoglosses
> > must reflect the languages spoken in Central Europe
> > Neolithic' is just that: an article of faith. Linguistic
> > conclusions require linguistic support.
> >
> I'm sure you're acquainted with Bomhard's and Vennemann's work (I hope
> you won't call them "Pyramidiots" or other silly word.), are you? This
> where I inferenced my conclusion.
>Hello,
It has been (genetically) proven
that all humans descend from a
single human so very logically all
world languages stem ultimately from
the language spoken by this first
human
h2arh3 looks like Arabic h2arath (IE
h2=Arabic laryngeal "h")
plough looks like Arabic falah2
Both words have the same meanings
No surprise as genetics proved that
proto Indo-Europeans were a migrant
neolithic farmer community from
fertile crescent (carriying the
westasian hg R1b)
Please see below
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/
observations/2010/01/19/sowing-
their-seeds-neolithic-farmers-
spawned-most-european-males/
Agriculture emerged on the human
cultural scene about 10,000 years
ago, spreading rapidly through
Europe from the Near East to the
British Isles in about 4,000 years.
But did this world-changing
technology get disseminated via an
expanding wave of industrious
farmers or through word-of-mouth
among local hunter-gatherer
populations?
To help answer this much-debated
question, researchers have peered
into the genetics of modern
Europeans for clues. Mark Jobling of
the University of Leicester in the
U.K. and his colleagues found not
only that agriculture seems to have
spread westward via a new group of
Neolithic people from the Near East,
but also that these new farmers were
incredibly successful with the local
ladies, leaving their genetic traces
in their modern male descendents.
"We focused on the commonest Y-
chromosome lineage in Europe,"
Jobling said in a prepared
statement. The team analyzed a
single haplotype, R1b1b2 (which is
carried by about 110 million men in
Europe today) from 2,574 European
men whose families had been living
in the same location for at least
two generations. This common
haplotype, however, is not randomly
distributed across the continent.
"It follows a gradient from south-
east to north-west," he said. About
12 percent of men in eastern Turkey
have it, whereas some 85 percent of
men carry it in Ireland.
Others have previously speculated
that this distribution was due to
earlier, Paleolithic expansion from
Africa. But Jobling and his fellow
researchers asserted that it
reflects a rapid, more recent
genetic spread during the Neolithic
—one that has a "striking"
correlation with known Neolithic
sites. "The geographical
distribution of diversity within the
haplogroup is best explained by its
spread from a single source from the
Near East via [Turkey] during the
Neolithic," the authors concluded in
their study, which was published
online January 19 in PLoS Biology.
"In total, this means that more than
80 percent of European Y chromosomes
descend from incoming farmers,"
geneticist Patricia Balaresque, also
of the University of Leicester and
lead study author, said in a
prepared statement. "In contrast,
most maternal genetic lineages seem
to descend from hunter-gatherers."
How could these early European
ancestors come from such different
groups? "To us, this suggests a
reproductive advantage for farming
males over indigenous hunter-
gatherer males during the switch
from hunting and gathering to
farming," Balaresque said. "Maybe,
back then, it was just sexier to be
a farmer."
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