In this paper, we present a brief critical analysis of the data, methodology, and results of the most recent publication on the computational phylogeny of the Indo-European family (Heggarty et al.

Phylogenetic trees are used to represent the evolutionary history of a language family from its descent from a common ancestor at the stem to the diversification into branches and the observed ...

Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian, ...