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>>18224558
No, they were pretty much right about everything except that the Aryans (now known as the Yamnaya) came from the steppes and settled Germany rather than the other way around.

https://www.livescience.com/59703-north-india-populated-by-central-asian-invaders.html

I highly recommend the book in picture, there's a whole chapter on the Aryan Invasion.

>>16113519
>Anthony wrote his book in 2008
The debate has been going on since the 19th century. The 'Aryan' hypothesis fell out of favour in the mid 20th century, mostly due to Nazis, and the meme 'pots not people', i.e. the ancient world was mostly static and nobody invaded anyone or migrated, just lived in a market place of ideas*. Ancient genomics has destroyed that idea - there were large migrations and population turnover, and in europe that came from the Steppes, not Anatolia.
The article taleb cites is this, from 2012, a last ditch attempt at saving the hypothesis - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21347
It was fully blown out the water 3 years later by Reich - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14317%20..

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrationism_and_diffusionism

has anyone read this? I remember people being excited about it on here before it came out