David Anthony inferred a shared linguistic ancestry from common etymologies for words such as “wheel,” “cart,” and “horse” across languages in India and Europe, referring to technologies the speaker says have existed for only about 6,000 years.

“But we are able to leverage our intelligence to actually one of my favorite examples of this is David Anthony,”

“the guy who wrote The Horse, The Wheel and Language.”

“He made this.”

“it was super impressive discovery before we had the genetic evidence for it like a decade before where he said look if i look at all these languages in india and europe they all share the same etymology i mean literally what you're talking about the same etymology for words like wheel and cart and horse and these are technologies that have only been around for the last 6 000 years which must mean that there were some group uh that”