The Source of Indo-European Languages (4 of 5) (VIDEO)

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This video shows the expansion of the Indo-European languages through time. Contours on the map represent the 95 percent highest posterior density distribution of the range of Indo-European. Please Note: This video is a variation of an interactive Google Earth graphic, which is available upon request as a .kml file. Please email scipak@aaas.org for more information or a copy of the interactive file. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the August 24, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Remco Bouckaert at University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand, and colleagues was titled, “Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family.”

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[File courtesy of R. Bouckaert, P. Lemey, M. Dunn., S.J. Greenhill, A.V. Alekseyenko, A.J. Drummond, R.D. Gray, M.A. Suchard, and Q.D Atkinson]

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