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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Others suggest that nomadic ‘Kurgan’ horsemen brought the origins of Indo-European language ... down on the side of Anatolia4 (see 'Language tree rooted in Turkey'). Neither Gray nor Atkinson ...

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