Bruce Mannheim on Linguistic and Genetic Groupings: A Rebuttal

Influential linguist Bruce Mannheim commented on the likelihood of overlap between genetic and linguistic patterns of variation in conjunction with the recent resuscitation (all outside of the circle of professional linguists) of Joseph Greenberg’s classification of America Indian languages. “Let…

A Near Eastern Origin of the Indo-Europeans - An Internet Hoax? Observations on the Writings of a Confused Genome Blogger

A Near Eastern Origin of the Indo-Europeans – An Internet Hoax? Observations on the Writings of a Confused Genome Blogger

Dienekes has been campaigning for a while for the Indo-European homeland in “West Asia” or the “Near East.” I usually don’t actively discuss the origin of Indo-Europeans and technically this question falls outside of the theme for this blog. But…