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This @EconomicTimes story, as usual, is bunkum. You only need to read the scientific paper to see that this story directly contradicts what the study says in plain words.
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@EconomicTimes A direct quote from the paper: “However, a natural route for Indo-European languages to have spread into South Asia is from Eastern Europe via Central Asia in the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE, a chain of transmission that did occur as has been documented in detail..."
@EconomicTimes Another one: “The fact the Steppe pastoralist ancestry in South Asia matches that in Bronze Age Eastern Europe (but not Western Europe) provides additional evidence for this theory, as it elegantly explains the shared distinctive features of Balto-Slavic & Indo-Iranian languages”
@EconomicTimes This is NOT the first time @EconomicTimes has carried blatantly dubious stories in its pages. This is an earlier one. Please read the full thread:
@EconomicTimes Read my full thread about the two genetic papers that were published today, and what they say about the population formation of South Asia here:
@EconomicTimes That @EconomicTimes would carry something like this is yet another proof of the abdication of their responsibility by many journalists at every level.
