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.

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.

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.