Potential Origins of Europeans Found

Yahoo News ^ | November 10, 2005 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

[AlaskaErik]

After the past two weeks, Europeans should be more concerned about their future rather than their past.

[wmileo]

"After the past two weeks, Europeans should be more concerned about their future rather than their past."

What future? Spread your legs Oh yea Sons and Daughters of Charlemagne! The Mullahs are coming.

[thoughtomator]

Here's an illustration of the excavation site:

[CarrotAndStick]

[Caipirabob]

A study of DNA from ancient farmers in Europe shows sharp differences from that of modern Europeans — results that are likely to add fuel to the debate over European origins.

I take it they won't present this as "sugar and spice and everything nice".

How about French Socialists?

Scum filled bags and surrender flags, that's what French Socialists are made from...

OK, not contributing to the intellectual content here, but thank you for letting me vent!

Very interesting post BUMP!

[son of caesar]

well, now that we know todays europeans are not native, i guess more weight should be given to the idea that europe really was islamic in the formative years. reclaiming what was once yours is ok with me. sarcasm off.

[iowamark]

The term Indo-European language group does not mean the European languages came from India but rather that they all seem to have a common origin.

[12B]

Potential Origins of Europeans Found

Early Bureaucrat-Man?

[Gengis Khan]

Sanskrit is the "common origin".

[Gengis Khan]

Aha denial,....... but that the modern thoery of anthropology, cant help it.

Face it, you guys came from India.

[thomaswest]

This is interesting. Evolution of the species is a good description of life on earth. Everybody recognizes that languahge has evolved--Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian from Latin. English, modern German, Dutch from Old Teutonic. Etc. Evolution of language is well-documented, showing modification over generations, selection based on surroundings, and nobody pretends it was "intelligently designed".

Seems to be a good model for evolution vs. creationism.

[Mamzelle]

About the only reliable and interesting thing that linguists have managed in the evo-linguistics file is the discovery that the Gypsies were not Egyptian, but come from somewhere in Pakistan or India, due to all the sanskrit remnants found in "Rom."

We use a couple of Gyspy/Sanskrit words commonly. "Punch" means five, five flavors for a drink or five fingers for a fist to hit you with. Also "shiv" for blade or knife.

[Netheron]

Of course language was intelligently designed. It was clearly designed by intelligences to improve communication of concepts and ideas.

Obviously, though, these intelligences designed and modified it on an ad-hoc basis.

Oddly enough, Esperanto, an intelligently designed language, has not caught on. Maybe designing language in an ad-hoc manner has some real advantages over pre-planning it?

[Little Bill]

The article says nothing, to small a sample to be significant.

[JCEccles]

Evolution of language is well-documented, showing modification over generations, selection based on surroundings, and nobody pretends it was "intelligently designed".

You don't believe language changes as a result of mental reflection and effort?

The evidence that language is the result of not merely intelligent agents, but agents with exceptionally large brains, is not only self-apparent, it is overwhelming.

If this weren't true, rocks would speak--and in local dialects.

[JCEccles]

Oddly enough, Esperanto, an intelligently designed language, has not caught on. Maybe designing language in an ad-hoc manner has some real advantages over pre-planning it?

Esperanto is to languages what communism is to economics.