The constraint tree used to filter the MCMC sample of trees also contained assumptions about Indo-European history that might ... cognate information. The languages at the base of the tree ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience research and mental health treatment.

The resulting phylolinguistic family trees do not fully support either an agriculture or pastoralism-based origin for the language family, but instead support a “hybrid” hypothesis that ...

Our language family tree topology, and our lineage split dates ... the study therefore proposed a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages, with an ultimate homeland ...

The desire to create heroic origins of languages is an urge to impose order ... After all, the neat nodes on a palaeobiologist’s tree of life are just simplifications of a messy continuum.

The Sino-Tibetan language family consists of more than 400 languages spoken by around 1.4 billion speakers worldwide, including major world languages like Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese. However ...

Our language family tree topology, and our lineage split dates, point to other early branches that may also have spread directly from there, not through the Steppe.” The authors of the study therefore ...