"After investigating the DNA of ancient individuals, a University of Copenhagen study has concluded that massive population migrations shaped modern Eurasian people groups who are, genetically speaking, not more than a couple of thousand years old.
The lead author, Assistant Professor Morten Allentoft, said the
study of skeletons excavated across large areas of Europe and Central Asia confirmed that migrations had brought on the economic and social changes that happened at the beginning of the third millennium BC.
The migrations resulted in huge changes to the European gene-pool, so that—genetically speaking—ancient Europeans from the time after these migrations are much more similar to modern Europeans. It also accounts for the origin of northern European language families.
While the study discusses scenarios for the migration, including the possibility that “re-writing of the genetic map began in the early Bronze Age, about 5,000 years ago”, biblical creationists immediately think of the Tower of Babel and the dispersal of people groups as in Genesis 11:7–8: “Come, let us go down and confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.” CMI
The lead author, Assistant Professor Morten Allentoft, said the
The migrations resulted in huge changes to the European gene-pool, so that—genetically speaking—ancient Europeans from the time after these migrations are much more similar to modern Europeans. It also accounts for the origin of northern European language families.
While the study discusses scenarios for the migration, including the possibility that “re-writing of the genetic map began in the early Bronze Age, about 5,000 years ago”, biblical creationists immediately think of the Tower of Babel and the dispersal of people groups as in Genesis 11:7–8: “Come, let us go down and confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.” CMI
