Simon James Greenhill is a New Zealand scientist who works on the application of quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory.
In addition to Austronesian, he has contributed to the study of the phylogeny of many language families, including Dravidian[5] and Sino-Tibetan.
[7] The title of his 2008 doctoral thesis is The archives of history: a phylogenetic approach to the study of language.
[8] Greenhill is currently a scientist affiliated with the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
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