For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

DNA Evidence of Ancient Population Hints at Common Ancestry of Indo-European Languages New insights regarding the origin of ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

Indo-European languages—including English, Russian, Greek, Bengali and more—are spoken by nearly half of the world’s ...

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the ...

Two new papers, published in the journal Nature, by scientists from Russia and Ukraine, further solidify this claim about the ...

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