(May 4, 2020 at 8:43 pm)Haipule Wrote: Aloha AF:
Puzzle: No doubt the India Plate broke off from Africa and Madagascar and eventually smashed into South Asia absorbing some islands on the way. The geology and minerology of the India Plate is radically different than the Eurasian Plate but similar to Africa and Madagascar--but when did they collide? Also radically different is the ethnicity and the cultural differences between the people of India and South Asia to this day. It appears to me that the people of India did not migrate there but where migrated there through plate tectonics.
Now, if I establish that a man is man only because of the ability of complex language. Then man, with the ability of complex language, according to most, is about 50,000yrs old.
Therefore, the people of the India Plate, who went for a ride, and the people of the Eurasian plate, both must of had the ability of complex language at the time the plates collided making it much later than the 40M years ago that current geologic studies suggest.
I wouldn't place too much weight on the first land mass "Pangea" and the subsequent tectonic plate shifts to our modern map, as being the magic bullet as to why different language exist.
Plate shifts are obvious to science for sure. But the biggest reason humans speak differently, isn't because of plate shifts over millions of years, but because of migration.
To get from Pangea to today's map didn't happen in a day, or week or a century. The differences in culture and language was because of migration, not plate tectonics.
