Syntactic theory and the science of (language) history

We will present: i) Significant cross-family gene-language correlations among Eurasian populations. ii) The possibility of formally evaluating the relative position of the IE, Uralic and Altaic phylogenies above within a wider set of other Eurasian and American languages. On these grounds, we will try to argue for two conclusions: 1) capturing phylogenetic signals with a model embodying a high degree of universal hypotheses about language is not only possible, but also recommendable for the purposes of statistical reliability; 2) deeply deductive approaches advocated by some modern cognitive theories are useful for the scientific foundation of the study of human history.