Tuesday, March 17, 2015

New DNA Evidence on the Origins of Indo-European Languages

Interesting article from Nature on new DNA evidence of a hitherto, unknown "third wave" of Eurasian steppe invaders into Europe, from 5,000 years ago. How researchers are able to make the leap from DNA to linguistics is beyond me, and not explained in the article, but it's fascinating, nonetheless. The article is here.  

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