10-30-2004, 08:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-30-2004, 09:08 AM by G.Subramaniam.)
The genetic answer is clear: 80 per cent of modern Europeans descend from the old hunter-gatherer gene types, and only 20 per cent from Near Eastern farmers.
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This is the key
Languages evolve very fast and it is hard to keep track of them after 10k years
Hence Proto-Indo European is less than 10k years old
All linguists agree on this
This means genetic Europeans are speaking a non-European language
Since 80% of European genes are old genes
This kind of implies an Aryan Invasion / Migration into Europe
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To put matters in perspective
The immediate ancestor of Homo Sapiens - Homo Sapiens Idaltu was excavated in Ethiopia circa 160k years ago
The first Homo Sapiens skeletons were excavated in Ethiopia circa 130k years ago
So if a species jump can happen in 30k years or less, a racial jump could be much faster
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This also raises the intriguing idea that EVE dated to 160k-190k years by DNA could actually be the pre-human homo-sapiens idaltu
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Also consider the pygmy homo-erectus skeletons found in Flores 2 days ago
Pygmification happens in about 10k years
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This is the key
Languages evolve very fast and it is hard to keep track of them after 10k years
Hence Proto-Indo European is less than 10k years old
All linguists agree on this
This means genetic Europeans are speaking a non-European language
Since 80% of European genes are old genes
This kind of implies an Aryan Invasion / Migration into Europe
--
To put matters in perspective
The immediate ancestor of Homo Sapiens - Homo Sapiens Idaltu was excavated in Ethiopia circa 160k years ago
The first Homo Sapiens skeletons were excavated in Ethiopia circa 130k years ago
So if a species jump can happen in 30k years or less, a racial jump could be much faster
--
This also raises the intriguing idea that EVE dated to 160k-190k years by DNA could actually be the pre-human homo-sapiens idaltu
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Also consider the pygmy homo-erectus skeletons found in Flores 2 days ago
Pygmification happens in about 10k years