Human languages form a distinct and largely independent class of cultural replicators with
behaviour and fidelity that can rival that of genes. Parallels between biological and linguistic …

Historical inference is at its most powerful when independent lines of evidence can be
integrated into a coherent account. Dating linguistic and cultural lineages can potentially …

There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of the Indo-European language family.
The conventional view places the homeland in the Pontic steppes about 6000 years ago. An …

We present the first proposal of detailed internal subgrouping and higher-order structure of
the Pama-Nyungan family of Australian languages. Previous work has identified more than …

The Dravidian language family consists of about 80 varieties (Hammarström H. 2016
Glottolog 2.7) spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India and …

Phylogenetic methods have recently been applied to studies of cultural evolution. However,
it has been claimed that the large amount of horizontal transmission that sometimes occurs …

New contributions toward generalizing evolutionary models expand greatly our ability to
analyze complex evolutionary characters and advance phylogeny reconstruction. In this …

Despite more than 200 years of research, the internal structure of the Turkic language family
remains subject to debate. Classifications of Turkic so far are based on both classical …

Here, we describe the process used to generate the tree sample used for inference in this
paper, as well as the details of the inference process used to infer evolutionary transition …

We address the problem of the joint statistical inference of phylogenetic trees and multiple
sequence alignments from unaligned molecular sequences. This problem is generally …