Talk:The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

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[edit] What?

This article is (probably) a lot of nonsense. The red flag for me was the stuff about the San languages.

  1. There's no such thing as a San "language". There are numerous KhoiSan peoples who speak several Khoisan languages (note the plural).
  2. These languageS are not the only ones on Earth which use click consonants.
  3. No contemporary linguist would seriously describe the KhoiSan languages, with their numerous complex clicks, consonant clusters, numerous vowels, and tones as "archaic." Mandarin is a much simpler language than most, yet no one ever describes the people or their language as archaic.

These are only the issues I'm vaguely familiar with. I imagine that someone more knowledgeable me would find many, many more blatant falsities than I did.

Either the person who wrote this or their source obviously didn't know what they were talking about.

Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 08:36, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page move

The page appears to be written basing on a single source, so it has no rights to squat on a general title, Human genetic history, which I redirected to where a multiple-source NPOV text is being written, Human evolutionary genetics. `'Miikka 17:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)