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This site accompanies the talk Further on beyond cognacy: model adequacy and meaningful branch lengths in alignment-based phylogenetics, given by Gerhard Jäger at QC-LESTE, Paris, on 11 June 2026.

The analysis code is at further_on_beyond_cognacy. It builds on the Lexibank World Tree, Jäger (2026), doi.org/10.57754/FDAT.ccfpp-z0113.

Code and slides written with assistance by Claude Code.