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		<title>How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greenhill SJ, Drummond AJ, &#038; Gray RD (2010) How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships? PLoS ONE 5(3): e9573.]]></description>
		<link>http://simon.net.nz/articles/how-accurate-and-robust-are-the-phylogenetic-estimates-of-austronesian-language-relationships/</link>
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		<title>Deleting duplicate records in Mendeley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been playing around with the program Mendeley for storing my massive collection of academic papers in PDF format. Mendeley looks to be a really useful bit of software, but at the moment it&#8217;s rather horrifically buggy. A major problem I&#8217;ve been running into is that it&#8217;s quite happy to import duplicate PDFs. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simon.net.nz/articles/deleting-duplicate-records-in-mendeley/</link>
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		<title>COOL8: The probability of proto-forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I presented a talk to the 8th International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics on the probability of protoforms:
Many papers about language subgrouping make the argument that if a word form is present in two language subgroups, then it probably reflects their common proto-language. This fairly reasonable assumption has taken center-stage in the reconstruction of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simon.net.nz/articles/cool8-the-probability-of-proto-forms/</link>
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		<title>python-nexus &#8211; a generic nexus (.nex, .trees) reader for python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[python-nexus - a generic nexus (.nex, .trees) reader for python
© Simon J. Greenhill, 2009
Contact me if you have any problems.
Download:
You can download python-nexus from the bitbucket repository. 
Usage:
Reading a Nexus

PLAIN TEXT
PYTHON:




&#62;&#62;&#62; from nexus import NexusReader


&#62;&#62;&#62; n = NexusReader&#40;&#41;


&#62;&#62;&#62; n.read_file&#40;'example.nex'&#41;


&#160;


# or 


&#62;&#62;&#62; n = NexusReader&#40;'example.nex'&#41;


...


&#160;


# display blocks found in data file


&#62;&#62;&#62; n.blocks


&#123;'data': &#60;NexusDataBlock: 2 characters from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://simon.net.nz/articles/python-nexus-a-generic-nexus-nex-trees-reader-for-python/</link>
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		<title>Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greenhill SJ, &#038; Gray RD (2009) Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages. New Zealand Science Review, 66: 97-101.]]></description>
		<link>http://simon.net.nz/articles/darwin-language-and-two-great-pacific-voyages/</link>
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