An international team of linguists and geneticists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, a family of languages spoken by nearly half of the world’s population. The work is published in the journal Science.
Very cool. I love the Max Planck Institute. The small part of the map that I have personal connection to has historical accounts that reflect these migration flows.
I wonder if you could develop a relatively accurate map of recent human migration just by having a long chat with every village’s local historian.
I also hope we can start doing these for the other languages branches soon.
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oh i was about to post this! Just saw it in Science