Benedict King
Abteilung für Sprach- und Kulturevolution
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 267
E-Mail:
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About me
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, and a member of the Comparative Oceanic Linguistics (CoOL) team. My main research focus is the construction phylogenetic trees of language relationships using Bayesian methods. From these trees I hope to learn about the origins of language families, how languages spread and the dynamics of language evolution. Through this research I have also become involved in improving tree-building methodology. I come from a background in Evolutionary Biology and Palaeontology.
Curriculum Vitae
2018 – 2020 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, The Netherlands |
2014 – 2018 | PhD Evolutionary Biology, Flinders University, Australia |
2010 – 2013 | BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK |
Publications
2024
Clement, A. M., Cloutier, R., Lee, M. S. Y., King, B., Vanhaesebroucke, O., Bradshaw, C. J. A., Dutel, H., Trinajstic, K., & Long, J. A. (2024). A Late Devonian coelacanth reconfigures actinistian phylogeny, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics. Nature Communications, 15(1): 7529. |
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King, B., Greenhill, S. J., Reid, L. A., Ross, M., Walworth, M., & Gray, R. D. (2024). Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports a rapid migration of Malayo-Polynesian languages. Scientific Reports, 14(1): 14967. |
2023
Heggarty, P., Anderson, C., Scarborough, M., King, B., Bouckaert, R., Jocz, L., Kümmel, M. J., Jügel, T., Irslinger, B., Pooth, R., Liljegren, H., Strand, R. F., Haig, G., Macák, M., Kim, R. I., Anonby, E., Pronk, T., Belyaev, O., Dewey-Findell, T. K., Boutilier, M., Freiberg, C., Tegethoff, R., Serangeli, M., Liosis, N., Stroński, K., Schulte, K., Gupta, G. K., Haak, W., Krause, J., Atkinson, Q. D., Greenhill, S. J., Kühnert, D., & Gray, R. D. (2023). Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages. Science, 381(6656): eabg0818. |
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Choo, B., Holland, T., Clement, A. M., King, B., Challands, T., Young, G., & Long, J. A. (2023). A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle–Late Devonian of central Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 43(3): e2285000. |
2021
King, B., Marone, F., & Rücklin, M. (2021). Tooth development in the Early Devonian sarcopterygian Powichthys and the evolution of the crown osteichthyan dentition. Palaeontology, 64(5), 645-659. |
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King, B., Reid, L., Walworth, M., Greenhill, S., & Gray, R. D. (2021). Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports rapid initial Austronesian expansion followed by northward back-migration. Talk presented at 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Palacky University. online. 2021-06-28 - 2021-07-01. |
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Rücklin, M., King, B., Cunningham, J. A., Johanson, Z., Marone, F., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2021). Acanthodian dental development and the origin of gnathostome dentitions. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5, 919-926. |