Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

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Supports the existence of a recent hybrid proposal placing the Indo-European root earlier than the steppe hypothesis allows and south of the Caucasus, with a secondary steppe role in the European dispersal. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. The root age reported by the paper is deliberately not quoted; the summary of its conclusion is held from standing knowledge and its reception since publication could not be assessed as of August 2026.

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