Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6790, 2000, Pages 1052-1055

  Gray, Russell D ^a   Jordan, Fiona M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGENY; POLYNESIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0034729793     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016575     Document Type: Article

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