1/What's fun about Out-Of-India theory is not how terrible it is, but how silly Out-of-Anatolia looks in comparison https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/a-note-on-the-early-expansions-of-the-indo-europeans/ …
4/Better comparison: Tycho Brahe's celestial theory, where the sun orbits the earth but every other planet orbits the sun.
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5/Out-of-Anatolia: in up-to-date version, they claim IEs born in Anatolia, some get to the steppes, radiate out from thence.
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6/Out-of-India: the up-to-date version is- take a guess? IEs born in India, some get to the steppes, radiate out from thence.
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7/OOA always was wrong on balance of evidence for as long as I've followed it. But contrasting to OOI shows the general form!
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8/"Out-of-LARPistan": Indo-Europeans start anywhere you please, then some migrate to the steppes, radiate out. Epicycles!
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9/Do I have a pt? Dunno. Maybe only that bad, even ridiculous arguments have important roles to play in ecology of knowledge.
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