Richard Dawkins

I don't think there was such a thing as proto-Indo-European in that sense.

I suspect that it was never a, well, of course there was, but the idea that there was a single language which then spread

by some kind of mysterious influence all over europe and the indian subcontinent it would have been a hybrid of some sort as i believe we could say english is because english is a mixture of germanic and romance languages i bet proto-indo-european was a hybrid in the same way and it's

It's biology envy that makes linguists try to trace back to a single ... We do have that envy.

In previous generations, all that I said was that you can trace back to a single common ancestor

Admittedly you can go back before that and then of course they will be, all genes will come in from everywhere.

By the way in bacteria it's quite different.

In bacteria it's much more like I think of language where you have really, you really do have.

Sure.

Cut and paste going on all the time between bacterial genomes.

I'm very interested in the possibility that... truths emerge through evolving manuscripts now that's a very interesting idea and it's totally different from divine inspiration and i want to pursue it because i don't believe in divine inspiration but i would be prepared to believe in evolving manuscripts

I'm very interested in the possibility that... truths emerge through evolving manuscripts now that's a very interesting idea and it's totally different from divine inspiration and i want to pursue it because i don't believe in divine inspiration but i would be prepared to believe in evolving manuscripts

I'm very interested in the possibility that... truths emerge through evolving manuscripts now that's a very interesting idea and it's totally different from divine inspiration and i want to pursue it because i don't believe in divine inspiration but i would be prepared to believe in evolving manuscripts