genetics

I've just been looking at the two articles mentioned a while
ago (_Did Indo-European Languages spread before farming?_
and _The Early History of Indo-European Languages_), but
I've lost the URL's...

Anyway, the first is a really interesting language, but I've
mailed the authors to point out that Swadesh isn't really considered
a linguist anymore - the authors are not linguists, and I noted,
not geneticists, either.

The second article is by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov,
and I don't know whether I can really take it seriously. On the face
of it, by my own judgement, I wouldn't, but as I'm not a specialist
in the field, I'd have to read what other think about it in order
to calibrate my opinion ;-). It wasn't very informative about the
link between genetics and linguistics, the only mention of
genetics being plant genetics.

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Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt