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

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Greenhill, Simon J ^a   Drummond, Alexei J ^a   Gray, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; HISTORICAL PERIOD; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; ALGORITHM; HISTORY; HUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; TAIWAN;

EID: 77949706424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009573     Document Type: Article

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