How accurate and robust are the phylogenetic estimates of Austronesian language relationships?

We recently used computational phylogenetic methods on lexical data to test between two scenarios for the peopling of the Pacific. Our analyses of lexical data supported a pulse-pause scenario of Pacific settlement in which the Austronesian speakers originated in Taiwan around 5,200 years ago and ra...

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Main Authors: Simon J Greenhill, Alexei J Drummond, Russell D Gray
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20224774/?tool=EBI